Variabele stimulansen: verleden + toekomst = NU!?!

Variable Stimulans
Re: 2 April 2004

I
wanted to
go this morning
to buy some cheap clothes but after all didn't:
too many books to read,
things to write down and I love loneliness more than almost anything else! Time will come for whatever needs to de done?
And after all
I've been living my whole life in such a cheap way that I'm not
going to change so much anymore!
When I started working in the sixties I
earned what would be now 300 euro per month
and in the seventies 600 ...
Nowadays never more than 1000
and that's enough for a simple life like mine?
I gladly leave it to other people to earn more, spend more and get exited about 'normal life' ...
Just as I couldn't stop myself from wandering
around lots of countries when I was young,
NOW I feel absolutely no need at all for 'going out',
'crowded places', 'physical' activities.
JUST the more or less
'regular' every-day-life with 'words', 'ideas' and 'recycling'
is enough for me.
The house, the garden, the people,
the world in 'eternity' with all its changes is 'all' that I need ...
Why move around when everything is
HERE already present and 'fascinating' -
long live the simple life {!} -
and hash &
rehash till 'the end' is there?!
liefdesverdrietnahnahcool!erg vrolijkknipoogvrolijkverliefd

BACK to the past of the future now!
I'm captivated and time goes by so very
fast ...

A more
vigorous empire
might have thrust forward and reconquered Dacia {Rumania}, but the Roman Empire lacked any such vigour!
Constantine the Great was certainly
a monarch of great devotion and intelligence.
He beat back a raid of the GOTHS
from just these vital Balkan regions, but he had no force to carry the frontier across the Danube.
He was too preoccupied with the internal weaknesses of the empire.
He brought the solidarity and
moral force of "Christianity" to revive the spirit of the declining empire, and he decided te create a new permanent capital at Byzantium upon the HELLESPONT.
This new-made Byzantium, which was re-christened CONSTANTINOPLE in his honour, was still building
when he died ...

Towards the end of his reign
occurred a remarkable transaction.
The Vandals, being pressed by the Goths,
asked to be received into the Roman Empire.
They were assigned lands in Pannonia,
which is now that pasrt of Hungary west of the river Danube,
and their fighting men became nominally legionaries.
But thse new legionaries remained under their own chiefs!
And Rome failed
to digest
them
...

Constantine died
working to reorganise his great realm,
and soon the frontiers were ruptured again and the Visehoths came almost
to Constantinople.
They defeated the emperor Valens at Adrianople and made a settlement in what is now Bulgaria,
similar to the settlement of the Vandals in Pannonia.
Nominally they were subjects of the emperor,
practically they were conquerors.

From A.D. 379 to 395 reigned the Emperor Theodosius the Great,
and while he reigned the empire was still formally intact.
Over the armies of Italy and Pannonia presided Stilicho, a Vandal,
over the armies in the Balkan peninsula, Alaric, a Goth.

When Theodosius died at the close of the fourth century
he left two sons.
Alaric supported one of these, Arcadius, in Constantinople,
and Stilicho the other, Honorius, in Italy.
In other words Alaric and Stilicho fought for the empire
with the princes as puppets.
In the course of their struggle Alaric marched into Italy and after a short siege took Rome in A.D. 410 ...

The opening half of the fifth century saw the whole of the Roman Empire in Europe the prey of robber armies of barbarians ...

!liefdesverdrietverliefdgemeenverwardgaap!bah!nahnahverdrietig!
?cool!erg vrolijkknipoogvrolijkverliefd
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