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...neatly Spenglerian life cycle. Archias arrives with the first settlers as a boy stowaway. Ragged and kinless, he carries on his forehead the scar of a cut made as an identification mark during the sack of his unknown native city. Grown prosperous and middle-aged in the hilltop village of Phrax, he fathers Bion, who appears later in the chronicle as a sturdy citizen of a city that is still raw but has years of greatness ahead. Bion's son Callias, heir to wealth, enters as an aging and slightly effete scholar. Callias' son Diothemis totters onstage...
...third river was the Sangro, in Italy. Johnston reports a hilltop debate with a priest about faith and heresy. Then, as in a nervous movie, he shifts the scene to a shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...
...pale young man stood on a hilltop under the night sky, ranting at the stars. He had just seen a performance of Wagner's Rienzi, and like that Roman tribune, vowed the young man, he would rise some day to lead his people. He would leave his mark on history...
...almost as fast as light, are not real in the ordinary sense. As man's instruments improve, he can catch more and more of these runaways, and this will widen the horizon of his observable universe just as the earthly horizon is widened by climbing to a hilltop. But it is not correct, says Gold, to assume that unseen and unseeable galaxies extend into space forever beyond the cosmic horizon. For the purposes of cosmological theory, a galaxy beyond the horizon is over the edge of reality...
...Prisoner." Soon after Miró had finished his confession, steel-helmeted guardsmen ringed Guizado's hilltop house overlooking the capital. "I am under the impression that I am a prisoner," said the worried Guizado, talking on the telephone...