The Tally I Didn't Know I Was Keeping
Lucius Sulla had this carved on his tomb: no friend ever served me, no enemy ever wronged me, that I haven't repaid in full. He meant it as a flex. I read it on a Tuesday and felt sick — because somewhere in my head, I had been carving the same thing. The tally costs something. Not them. You.
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- 2The Recipe for a GrudgeThe Recipe for a Grudge Earlier this year, researchers in Canada published something I keep coming back to. They wanted to know what a grudge actually is,
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