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Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time ([personal profile] door_of_time) wrote2020-10-26 06:56 pm
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A chequered history

"The old northern Europeans had swart and blaek: the wicked and elf-filled matte black, and the fertile luminosity of a darkness that filled the night with shapes and benign magic. Likewise the Romans had ater and niger, and that first word now forgotten is the root of 'atrocious'..."
-- Nick Hathaway, Gnomon

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