broyard-aristocracy

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

“τοῖος γὰρ φιλόπητος ἔρως ὑπὸ καρδίην ἐλυσθɛὶς

πολλὴν κατ’ ἀχλὺν ὀμμάτων ἔχɛυɛν,

κλέψας ἐκ στηθέων ἁπαλὰς ϕρένας.“

Archilochos