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Thursday, August 29, 2019

i.e., he was balding

...and on his broad, insolent temples the first white hairs were visible, announcing the imminent arrival of the barbarians, and the end of the Empire.

— “Don Juan's Crowning Love-Affair” by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
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