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Your right. But I promise you I will beat
you one day, Hephaistion.
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It was said later that Alexander was never defeated
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except by Hephaistion's thighs.
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Although an inferior race,
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the persians control at least four
fifths of the known world,
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But is it possible, the source of Egypt's mighty river Nile,
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could rise in these distance mountains of the outer earth?
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If so, an experienced navigator could find his way,
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here, by this river east,
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down into the great plains of India,
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Out into the eastern ocean, and into the world,
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and by this route, up the Nile, back to Egypt,
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into the middle sea, and home, to Greece.
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Now if only these frogs could look outward
and act on their favorite position of the center,
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Greece could rule the world.
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Why is it master, in myth these lands
you speak of are known?
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India, where Heracles, and Dionysus traveled.
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All these men who went east: Thesius,
Jason, Achilles...were victorious?
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From generation to generation their stories
have been past on. Why?
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..unless there was truth to them?
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Tales of amazons?
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No, Alexander, only common people believe these tales.
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..As they believe most anything.
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We are here precisely to educate ourselves
against such foolish passions.
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But if we are superior to the persians as you say,
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why do we not rule them?
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It is, it has always been our greek dream to go east.
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The east has a way of swallowing men and their dreams.