Just finished my second readthrough of The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of  the End of the Roman Republic, Duncan. some second impressions then.

the one about alliances

Marxists, theorists, philosophers, revolution etc. as their own religion? cannon? Marx as materialist …prophet? Different denominations? Orders? an order of anarchist monks, guerrilla fighters, …they meet at temples of labor, in groves and basketball courts and the freeway underpasses, they put up art. Jedi, wizards, sages, martial artists, mystics, monks, warrior poets, ascetics, the avant garde.*

The boy sips wine with a fervor i found somehow less then charming. <Jude is drinking from a communion chalice, getting drunk on the eucharist.>