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Plutarch tells us that one day Pyrrhus was devising projects of conquest. ‘We are going to subjugate Greece first,’ he was saying. ‘And after that?’ said Cineas. ‘We will vanquish Africa.’ – ‘After Africa?’ – ‘We will go on to Asia, we will conquer Asia Minor, Arabia.’ – ‘And after that?’ – ‘We will go…

As a child, I held on to many things. All of my many, many possessions and all of my many people. I held on the smallest and the biggest things. I held onto trivial things, important things, and the things that are trivial until they suddenly aren’t. I held onto mindless things. I held onto…