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Smile.. It confuses people..:)

Wonders never cease as long as you never cease to wonder.

do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!



if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!



smile! :grin: it confuses people!

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

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Another such scene explains the title of the book. "Quo Vadis?", means "where are you going?" and derives from a New Testament verse (John 13:36). As Sienkiewicz renders it, Peter is finally leaving Rome, at the behest of Paul and the remaining Christians, when:

Suddenly, up ahead a vision struck the eyes of the Apostle. It seemed to him that the golden circle
of the sun, instead of rising in the sky, moved down from the heights and was advancing on the
road toward them. Peter stopped and asked Nazarius, "Do you see the brightness up ahead
approaching us?"

"I See nothing," replied Nazarius.

Peter shaded his eyes with one hand and said after a while, "Someone is coming toward us amid the
gleam of the sun."

But no approaching footsteps could be heard. All was quiet around them. Nazarius however
noticed that the trees were quivering in the distance as if someone was shaking them. The light too
was spreading in a broad vista over the plain. He looked in amazement at the Apostle.

"Teacher, what is the matter?" he cried out in alarm.

The staff fell from Peter's hand to the ground. He stood motionless looking intently ahead of him;
his mouth was open; on his face Nazarius could see surprise and rapture.

Then Peter threw himself on his knees, his arms outstretched and cried out, "O Christ! O Christ!"
He prostrated himself kissing someone's feet.

The silence continued long. Then the words of Peter could be heard by Nazarius, with mingled
sobs coming from the old fisherman, "Quo Vadis, Domine?" (Where are You going, Lord?)

Nazarius did not hear the answer but to Peter's ears came a sad but sweet voice saying, "When you
desert my people, I am going back to Rome to be crucified a second time."

The Apostle lay on the ground, his face in the dust without motion or speech. It seemed to
Nazarius that he might have fainted or even died, but he finally rose, picked up his staff with
trembling hands and without a word turned back towards Rome.

The boy, seeing this, asked, "Quo vadis, domine?" (Where are you going, sir?)

"To Rome," answered the Apostle in a low voice. And he returned.

It is sequences like this that make this not merely an action packed historical melodrama but also a genuine novel of ideas. At the core of the story lies the miracle of how an obscure religion embraced by the people at the very fringes of this society, literally hiding in catacombs to escape persecution, could rise up, conquer the Empire and reshape the world. On either plane, the physical or the metaphysical, this is an exciting story and is sure to send you scurrying to find the rest of Sienkiewicz's work.

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Getting to the other side

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Written by: vanize

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I have no idea where my life is going, so it is thread based terrorism!

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Written by: vanize

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I personally think it is a form of thread based terrorism

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Regards

Shu
(Ice-E FyreStorm - Group Manager & Performer)

You know those people your parentals warned you about?... I'M ONE OF THEM!
Yes, i do bite!!

Written by: Unfortunatly Can Obtain Fruit

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"he keeps posting things like this on other boards too" - So its a persistant problem is it then

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Smile.. It confuses people..:)

Wonders never cease as long as you never cease to wonder.