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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.

If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.

Appreciated. In any case, Satan, the Archdevil and ruler of Hell, looms

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

There are no mental health services offered to Death Row inmates. For whatever healing is done they themselves must be the healers.

which had previously provided the translator safe haven. Pretending

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.