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This is me, preparing for an evening of copyediting articles for The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is in fact a small shrine within arm’s length of my desktop computer, but I usually don’t have so many open flames on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This image of the Roman official (?) comes from a huge set of photos of Celtic Gaulish and Roman re-enactors, which you can see here if you use Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The costuming and sets are the best I have ever seen, outside of HBO’s Rome<\/em> miniseries<\/a>, of blessed memory (but still streamable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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