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Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Final Measures; Ptolemy II Philadelphius, Thinking, Late One Night
I preferred the company of Poets, scholars, and starwatchers;
and for these latter, I built the finest of schools---
with no admittance to bumblers or botchers,
and no tolerance of skeptical fools,
or superstitions that always prove incremental
in their surreptitious profusion.
There, is taught the study the stars;
without subtle, or even obstinate, intrusion
that always interrupts, or delays, or mars
the progresses of learning and of discovery;
but the brilliant nightlighting in Alexandria
(the lighthouse, and all) might be detrimental;
better that tract of land outside Philidelphia.
And to Persia, I have been able to reach
out to recruit Magi, to relocate that tract, and teach.
Starward
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