Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
given gracious position
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
mean stories happy-endings
Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.
dance voice lips
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.
littles needs helping
Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.
mercy enough
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
long historian relate
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
memories matter sensuality
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.
tears cry make-you-cry
There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
accurate copies faithfully hung model next since whether
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
animals came father glad lost sorry three trying
When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be alive. I'm sorry I lost three though...I was trying to get them all out.
kept storm walls
We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
baton crew east heard home house ok stay sticking sure together worked works
We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a home to stay in, and we're all in the house (Mitchell, his father, and Stewart in east Baton Rouge). We've just been sticking together like family. I hadn't heard from some of my family, then I did...everyone's OK now, and so I can rest.
element fact merely revelation strike truth
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.