A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
No. 12, l. 15-18. <br class="br"> Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“How odd—disturbing, in fact—to hear someone address a god with such profane irreverence. But I suppose that the history of mythology is nothing if not proof that celestials are the instructors of man’s worst sins.”
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 77 “The Two Sovereigns” (p. 438)
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