Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. ~ "this book, though fictional in form, is based strictly on historical fact. everything in it is real or actually happened. and it all began just one year from today." ~ I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them. ~ Like any writer, I'd rather be read than dead. Like any serious *author*, I'd rather be dead than not read at all. ~ In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. ~
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