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09/03/21 • poem made from the handout for a lecture on the fragmentary historical sources and missing tomb of alexander the great
Text ID: (Pause.) history is a vat of honey, gold coalescing over the tombs of kings. while exploring This otherwise-impossible space, you may encounter the body. (Pause.) it died in Babylon
in June 323 BCE, and was buried in a tomb of narrative possibilities. every historian reinters it. (Pause.) there is reason to believe that the body deteriorated. in the sarcophagus where time
is embalmed, a pseudo-body took shape, unlikely to have incorporated the self. (Pause.) uncertainty opens up the tomb, but the body lies still—history made tactile and called Alexander. And now?
what fragments of him surviving can be glimpsed, when someone asks (Pause.) whose body is this /end ID
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