18 - Dreamt about Don last night, and it was one spiffy dream! Some cheeky person in school (this is not a dream) swiped my knife and hung it over Miss Sherman's desk. Evidently the students at Morse's have heard of Damocles.
The 'Sword of Damocles' is a moral anecdote about a Damocles being granted a time on King Dionysius' throne - but under a sword held up by only a hair. As Cicero wrote in Tusculan Disputations: "Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?" See wikipedia for details.
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