Author: Letter from Popcorn to Mellitus

Cited by

• Peter Ackroyd (1)
  • IN: The Plato Papers (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I cannot pretend to have been present during the glorious restoration of human light, the greatest and perhaps most significant scene in the narratives of humankind. Yet I believe that I am blessed in another sense, living on the verge of a new age. All around me I am beginning to see greatness and munificence erected, while our citizens with wonderful zeal have tried to revive and emulate the labours of distant antiquity. When asked why they are engaged in this pursuit, they reply 'Why not? What else is there to do?' This is our new spirit!
    FROM: NULL, (1999), Fictional, Na