Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven

Jeffrey Epstein wanted to penetrate the Vatican. To that end he began funding Catholic charities through his foundation, sent his people to events at the Vatican, and conspired with Bannon to "overthrow Francis" and "cleanse the Church". He also took a keen interest in Vatican foreign policy and discussed with Steve Bannon the notion that Catholicism is a great evil.

A most interesting worldview for a eugenicist and paedophile. Frankly, the outlook of these demons has proved highly instructive. If at first one might have supposed them merely greedy, depraved scoundrels, it turns out they are in fact rather dim, if ingenious, cartoon supervillains.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s