Kieran Healy

Posted
14 April 2003 @ 4pm

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Worth a Thousand Words

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Yes, yes, I know I ought to be constantly poring over Akkadians for 800, Alex.”

“I think you mean Assyrians.”

“Whoever it was that came down like a wolf on the fold. In purple and gold. Or so I was told.”


2 Comments

Posted by
Lilypod
15 April 2003 @ 1pm

They look rightly entertaining. Author noted, and a decision made to ferret them out.


Posted by
Seth
27 May 2003 @ 1pm

As a sometime cartoonist, sometime history major, and voracious reader, I have to second your recommendation of the “Cartoon History” series, each of which I’ve read probably a dozen times. Also check out the “Cartoon History of the United States,” which is exactly what it says it is, from prehistory to about 1990.