• J'Pol
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    921 days ago

    The ancient equivalent of driving behind a truck with a large and improperly secured load. That depiction is insane to think about.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      1021 days ago

      Who can identify the limbs, who the bones? The poor man’s crushed corpse disappears, just like his soul.

      is such a raw fucking line too.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 days ago

        And it still kinda hits home, after a couple thousands of years, and a couple centuries with ongoing progress. I really hope the day comes when this reads like the descriptions of naked slaves on auction.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 days ago

      Hmm, I wonder if there were actual safety regulations, in some form. There definitely wasn’t 400-1850 or so.

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        420 days ago

        There were, in fact! If I get the ambition I’ll try to dig up a paper I read on it a while back.