Covid delenda est!” The American statesman, Paul the Younger used to end all his political speeches with this phrase, even if his speech had nothing to do with Covid. The phrase means, “Covid must be destroyed.”
Malaparte writes,
Our skin, this confounded skin. You've no idea what a man will do, what deeds of heroism and infamy he can accomplish, to save his skin. This—this loathsome skin, do you see? […] One's skin is the only thing that counts now. The only certain, tangible, undeniable thing is one's skin. It's the only thing we possess, the only thing that's our own. The most mortal thing in the world! Only the soul is immortal, alas! But what does the soul count for now? One's skin is the only thing that counts. Everything is made of human skin. Even the flags of armies are made of human skin.
Captain Obvious writes we now have iron clad proof but mentions no Maquis.
Victory is that white flag waving overhead in the Homeland for the 4th of July and not the red white and blue nor the black and the red. We will wave it higher and higher until someone accepts our surrender and treats us by the laws of war. We dissent disgruntled in obedience paying taxes and voting yes and a little no now and then from boredom.
Elephant technology was once a very big deal.
I figure those elephants came from India. Bit much to think they came across the Strait of Gibraltar on some sort of 220BCE boat.