In searching out ‘anti-Soviet elements’, troiki were enjoined to capture escaped kulaks, ex-Mensheviks, ex-Socialist-Revolutionaries, priests, pre-revolutionary policemen and former members of non-Russian parties.

His goodly conquest of the golden fleece, / His falsed faith, and loue too lightly flit […]

In the late fourth century C.E. Jerome, in a letter to Eustochium, one of his closest friends among the noble women of Rome, asked how the plague of the agapetae came to exist within the Church. He calls these agapetae unwedded wives, novel concubines, and harlots.

This is the urban beach in a complexity of tide flows and appearances. I am a storm bath with a nervous motorboard.