Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

What if they called an apocalypse and nobody noticed?

It is said of Babylon that its capture was, two days later, still unknown to parts of the city.

— The Politics

A striking parenthesis in Aristotle, a propos the recent suggestions at I cite, Poetix, and k-punk that the world has already ended.

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