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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

— Northrop Frye

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The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

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