By Patrick Hamilton
London 1939, and within the dirty publands of Earls court docket, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who's cool, contemptuous and hopelessly fascinating to George. George is adrift in hell, until eventually whatever is going click on in his head and he realizes that he needs to kill her.
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On either hand of her, pretty fair boys son, 1 It beggared all description: she did lie apparelled as painters do set forth god / In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, / Cupid, with litle fans in their hands, with O'erpicturing that Venus where we see the which they fanned wind upon her. . fancy outwork nature. On each side her / (Plutarch in Neill, p. 332) Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids, / with divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem I To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
Reproduced by permission. —Victorian woman, reading to girl, illustration. HultonDeutsch Collection/CORBIS. Reproduced by permission. —A Harlot's Progress Plate 1: Ensnared by a Procuress, engraving by William Hogarth. Burstein Collection/CORBIS. Reproduced by permission. —Robin Wright, as Moll Flanders, in the 1995 film Moll Flanders, directed by Pen Densham, photograph MGM. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission. —King Arthur, Tapestry. Francis G. Mayer/CORBIS. Reproduced by permission.
Octavian and Agrippa had several hundred ships, as did Antony and Cleopatra. Likewise, both sides had tens of thousands of infantry. In the end, Agrippa managed to blockade Antony and Cleopatra's combined forces. , Agrippa's expertise led to a decisive defeat of the lovers' forces, and they fled to Alexandria. Cleopatra broke through the blockade and made for the Egyptian capital, as did Antony, with only about a fourth of the fleet. In Antony's absence, his forces surrendered, Octavian won the battle, and Actium, lost before it was fought, went down in history as a pivotal battle, for it determined that the ancient Roman world would be ruled from Rome, not from the east.