By Gore Vidal
ISBN-10: 0385507623
ISBN-13: 9780385507622
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The tale follows the adventures of a fictional "Cyrus Spitama", an Achaemenid Persian diplomat of the 6th-5th century BCE who travels the recognized international evaluating the political and spiritual ideals of varied empires of the time. Over the process his existence, he meets many influential philosophical figures of his time, together with Zoroaster, Socrates, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tsu, and Confucius.
Cyrus, who's the grandson of Zoroaster and who survives his homicide, grows up on the Achaemenid court docket as a quasi-noble, and turns into an in depth pal of his schoolmate Xerxes. due to Cyrus' expertise for languages, the Achaemenid King, Darius I, sends him as an envoy to yes kingdoms in India, yet Cyrus is extra attracted to the various non secular theories he encounters there than in developing ecocnomic exchange kin for Darius. After coming to strength, Cyrus' former schoolmate, now King Xerxes I, sends Cyrus to China, the place he spends a number of years as a captive and "honored guest" in a single of the warring states of the center nation, and spends loads of time with Confucius. Upon returning domestic, Cyrus witnesses the defeat of Xerxes and the top of the Greco-Persian wars. Cyrus then is going into retirement, yet is named upon via Xerxes' successor, Artaxerxes I, to function ambassador to Athens and witness to the key peace treaty among Pericles and himself.
The tale is said within the first individual as recalled to his Greek great-nephew Democritus. Cyrus's recollection is related to be inspired partially through his wish to set the checklist immediately following the booklet via Herodotus of an account of the Greco-Persian wars.
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By the time he was ten, it had climbed to fifty, and on through the years it rose each Christmas, until his eighteenth birthday, when his grandparents gave him a new car, a 1979 Plymouth Roadrunner. Junior had the opportunity to pick it out himself. He loved that marvellous car. Junior always noted disapproval on his parents’ faces when the older couple gifted their grandson. There was something else, too. Walt seemed jealous of the attention bestowed on his son. Over the years, during Christmas visits that barely lasted an hour, the adults never exchanged gifts or shared a meal.
I remember how your beautiful body moved beneath me, so in tune with mine. There will be no other woman for me. Ever. My contact with the raspy voice, who had called on me for years to go about the United States and Canada and do evil deeds for large amounts of money in payment, called me one last time. “Giorgio, we want you to come meet us in California. ” The phone clicked. God, I was fed up with hearing a receiver being hung up in my ear! In fact, I was fed up with the whole strikebreaking racket.
I also left a part of my guilt-ridden black soul and the heart that I hadn’t even known I owned. I kept in touch with Edgar Soames for the next five or six years. We’d talk on the telephone two or three times a year. He’d bring me up to date on the Newfoundland happenings. During one of those calls, he informed me that he’d married Emily. ” That was how he put it. I didn’t probe because I did not want to know. He called me at the beginning of summer, 1965. I happened to be home at the time – between jobs.
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