Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 15 November 2015

Luxury is brittle

and easily smashed.
Carthage 146 BCE
Constantinople 1204
Versailles 1789
Petrograd 1917
Paris 1940, 2015

1 comment:

Marcus Billson said...

Sic transit gloria mundi…what the slave said in the ear of the Roman general as he rode in a Senate-declared Triumph through the streets of Rome while the crowd shouted its adulation.