Pursuits
In Nero’s Rome, the Disgraced Took to the Bathtub
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Look on the bright side, I thought, watching Eric Cantor, the defeated House majority leader, as he slunk from view like a hurt pup.
In Nero’s Rome, you’d be opening your veins. There would be no hope whatsoever of a comeback and unless you wrote a nice goodbye note, your wife might be dispatched to the barren Pontine Islands.