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| User: | byzantine_ruins (2692559) 
The Epic Of The Fall
I Leave The 20th Century With No Regrets
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| Name: | byzantine_ruins |
| Location: | The Ruins of Byzantium, United States |
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| byzantine_ruins | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| AOL IM: |  byzantineruins (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
| Bio: | The teachers told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple,
an edge of the empire garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found.
And all this time the river flowed,
In the falling light of a northern sun.
On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.
Of proud and gallant heroes its white-tops leave no trace.
As right and wrong, pride and fall turn all at once unreal.
Yet ever the green hills stay
To blaze in the west-waning day.
Fishers and woodmen comb the river isles.
White-crowned, they’ve seen enough of spring autumn tide
To make good company over the wine jar,
Where many a famed event
Provides their merriment.
Help Byz kick the world in the jimmy!
Embarassing the Chinese government, getting death threats in Russian from Putin supporters and sneaking into structured finance websites to poke the rich in the tickly places all take time and effort. Show your support for the Byz by contributing to my endearing habit of offending the powerful. No donation too large or too small. All proceeds will be used on mindless self-indulgence, firearms-related expenses or further insolence toward those who seem like they would be most displeased by my insolent presence.
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| Memories: | 6 entries |
| Interests: | 51: agrarian collapse, armed yeomanry, bank runs, banking, brigand chih, cdos, christopher clapham, clos, cmos, confucianism, credit-default swaps, defending the shu han, derivatives, finance, financial instrument risk-opacity, free and easy wandering, global dance, guns, implicit consent of_the governed, industrial collapse, international business, international finance, kongming, libcon, libertarian conservativism, loop guru, militaria, military science, military theory, national security, political blogging, political economy, political science, radiative nature_of state decay, robert rotberg, running on the rocks, security issues, sic semper tyrannis, sinology, sleeping dragons, state decay, state failure, strained states, the dynastic cycle, the mandate of heaven, the tao, the way, transglobal underground, unreal tournament, weak states, zhuge liang |
| Schools: | None listed |
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| Friend of: | 86: 1star_pita, 5eh, a_machine, aaronace, alien_rockstar, angelmachina, anselm23, aperose, arialrainfire, ayelienne, ayla_3388, badthumper, belladonnareed, blacksnail, bluelang, byzantine_ruins, cogvitamin, crabbyolbastard, cuivenar, cusm, dancinglights, deathofsadness, demiurgent, deviantsaint, drloamless, emturtle, fatalist_remix, feonixrift, feonixrift.wordpress.com, fingerback, fivebells, flit, ghostsandrobots, h_ninja, hornetskaya, i_breathe, ilikethis, inkmonkey, insomnia, izzylobo, izzyrants, jackgreen60, kali_magdalene, kiarrith, laviofthelake, leucotomy, lighthorse76, livinginiran, lokipgh, magentamom, marshallthecat, momentrabbit, mozartjpn, mrfishes, naughty_kitty9, nebulawindphone, nixicat, not_croaker, oakthorne, particleboy, petasatus, pghbekka, philboulle, phraugie, piratebecky, postrodent, preservedmoose, pyrtolin, qp4, rcgirl, rdansky, rickj, rigistrade, shychiguy, soulkry, spiderfarmer, tegyrius, teyssier23, thewulf, tmchassells, tryptophan, vocalista001, vocis, whoknew999, wmacgyver, yukon_jack |
| Member of: | 1: paidmembers |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
