Wednesday, October the 24th, 2007

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Pudding And Ducks

“Deprive the Great King of his pudding, and morale might start to plummet. Not that it was an easy matter to catch out a bureaucracy so attentive to detail that it was in the habit of issuing travel chits to ducks.”

From Persian Fire : The First World Empire And The Battle For The West by Tom Holland