[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem

but what it was like exactly how it must have been to sweat that 
fresh sixty seconds out to catch your breath and let the realization
rush that it is you yet lives well then that exact instance i can
neither capture nor fake


Slaughter isn't always personal (except for the poor victim). Sometimes
rush becomes routine.

Remember the account of Hannibal's victory over the Romans at Cannae?
After the double envelopment, the Carthaginians slaughtered Romans all
day long, and had to rest so as to get the strength to keep hacking away
at the Romans.

Sort of like a butcher getting exhausted from cutting meat. Kill two
hundred Romans, rest a while, kill two hundred more.

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