Sunday, August 09, 2020
Like a Fly Over a Dunghill
Tom Holland, Persian Fire:
The First World Empire and
the Battle for the West (2005; rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2007), p. xxiii:
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Readers should certainly be warned that many of the details out of which this book's narrative has been constructed are ambiguous and ferociously disputed—and that the sudden appearance of a number in the text, hovering like a fly over a dunghill, generally indicates that qualification is being offered in an endnote.
