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Now, I turn from my attempt at a factual account of
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what happened in the past to fiction.
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The rest of this is my imagination.
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We find ourselves down the middle of Athens,
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the day before the ostracism.
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We are in the home of John the potter
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who is a charter member of the Aristides political club,
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and what they are doing is sitting about chatting
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as they incise or paint the name onto a ostrakon,
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the name is Themistocles.
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Next day, down there outside the Agora,
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various country bumpkins