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| Epoch | 1842-1900 (XIX) |
| Work | Kikolik, Chikolik and “Pick-nose” (Georgian Prose, book X, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi, 1984) |
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| Quote | “I pictured, for example, Romans’ fight with Carthaginians and perishing of Carthaginians from the face of the globe; then Romans’ fight against Jews, Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians and finally I concluded, that despite the fact that these noble peoples surpassed Romans by the power of their brains and wit, the Romans had an edge as they were more agile and stronger in fist-fight and close-quarters fight which contributed to the fact that such a vast ethnical treasure had been swallowed up by them […] The Romans had never begotten, raised or done anything even distantly reminding of Hannibal, the hero Carthaginians had raised, or the Savior born in the middle of Jewish country, or the men of science and the citizens of Greece. But this savage people had the nerve to swallow up so much of the world treasure and lore […]. Moreover, it had itself drowned in the blood of these great peoples. No vestige of this people remains anywhere in the world, except its dead language, by means of which they limit many people’s thinking and do not let them develop[…] While spending time on learning Latin the youth wastes its fresh potential, the best time […]. Even from today’s vantage point I can clearly see the crimes Romans had perpetrated: today too the mankind persecutes diversity and difference in the same way…” (pg.235-237) |
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