Troy
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Troy is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 07, 2023 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Poor shmucks don’t know Troy book rhythm”; “Paris would bring doom to Troy”; “They sailed by Troy, an instance (there’s no greater)“. It most often appears alongside America, Cronus, Israel.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 07, 2023
- Last seen: July 05, 2024
Appears In
- Hardball Questions For The Next Debate
- Book Review: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
- Your Book Review: Don Juan
Related Pages
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Cronus (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- The Iliad (2 shared issues)
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- 1812 (1 shared issues)
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- Abel (1 shared issues)
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- Ada (1 shared issues)
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- Adam and Eve (1 shared issues)
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- Albania (1 shared issues)
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- Apollonius of Tyana (1 shared issues)
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- Arab (1 shared issues)
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- Athens (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
TRUMP: Poor shmucks don’t know Troy book rhythm. Lousy!
He also counts “the oracle said something bad would happen if we left a guy alive, so we (tried to) kill them”. For example, the oracle told Priam that Paris would bring doom to Troy, so Priam originally left him exposed to die (he didn’t).
For Girard, the important thing about all these myths is that the victimization is good and correct. The oracle was right that Oedipus had killed his father and married his mother. This really was causing the plague. Expelling Oedipus really did solve the plague. Tiamat was the Dragon of Chaos; killing her and creating the world was probably a good move. Paris really did bring doom to Troy; Priam was right to try to kill him, and the only possible regret was that he didn’t finish the job.
I think Girard would counter that the problem isn’t a claim that racists are bad, the problem is the mob mentality that wants to immediately punish and destroy specific suspected racists without going through normal liberal procedures.
Our hero’s luck, he found, had reached its nadir: From Don to slave, Fortuna’s rash vicissitude Had struck; he met actors, sold by their traitor Of a director with no great solicitude; They sailed by Troy, an instance (there’s no greater) Of how far one can fall; and, lest we miss it, you’d Best catch the Hellespont — Byron remarks, He swam the strait once (no, that had no sharks).
Inline links: Hellespont