Dear Cicero,
I keep finding fans of your work from among the writers of my acquaintance. Tacitus was only a hundred or so years after your death, and his description of you, and of your legendary status among orators, reads like a fan letter, as if he too hoped that your ghost might be listening. Soon I will read to you from the letters to Pliny the younger, who was a friend of Tacitus, and who likewise praises your skills as a speaker and writer. It seems that I am far from alone in using you as an example to follow in my journey as a writer and speaker.
Here in the 21st Century, another war has flared up, potentially the ignition point for a global conflict that may define the coming generation. I remind myself that the future is unwritten. The past is not a mirror. I remember each day the words of a wise poet friend...
"I surrender to the whole catastrophe..." Amy Bodossian.
With gratitude and respect.
Morgan.
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