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Barbarian Fellas
Waiting for the Barbarians
By C. P. Cavafy
Translated by Edmund Keeley
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What’s the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.
Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader.
He’s even got a scroll to give him,
loaded with titles, with imposing names.
Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.
Why don’t our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.
Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?
Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven’t come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.
Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.
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Who is next? Lucio Candido needs to address.
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Rage would be cool to hear from.
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I second that. Rage is cool.
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Butcher is hungry…em whos next? Fresh meat…
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3rd in for Rage, although with all of his posting in the past year it’s like we know the guy.
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We know once he gets his teeth into something he wont let go 
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I’m all for Rage.
I’ll email him and let him know!
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I’d be down to do one as I’m kinda still new here.
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Basshead, the next in line is normally selected by the last person. So I saw that Wroboss was the person requested by Lucio.
Wroboss, you there?
If not, Rage can take the next one. And he can select someone so on.
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He quit D3 as far as I know. We were clanmates, and I haven’t seen him in months.
For expediency, we might as Rage to go and reserve a spot for Wroboss should he come back.
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Hey, everybody. Thanks very much for thinking of me, I’m honestly very flattered.
But, I’m going to take a pass, this sort of thing is really not in my wheelhouse. Again, my gratitude, and my apologies.
Basshead, I’m not sure if I get a nomination since I’m not actually going, but if I do, you definitely have my vote.
Rage are you sure fella? Love to hear from ya.
If no then maybe BassH.
Slight off topic but +1 for using a poem by Kavafis (Cavafy). Written over a century ago and still so incredibly relevant
Και τώρα τι θα γενούμε χωρίς βαρβάρους.
Οι άνθρωποι αυτοί ήσαν μια κάποια λύσις.
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Wow reading my own interview from so many years ago makes my heart happy! I met so many great friends here. The barb community is great. 
I still miss 1.08 Diablo 3 as it was my favorite iteration of the game. Thanks for putting all of these together, even us long-forgotten barbs are still here watching the new blood carry the barb forums.
I love being a part of this community.
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Okay folks we’re stagnant…
BassHead 》》》》 GO!
I am not a regular as well but occasionally folliwing. If not for 2.6.7, I would be in seclusion
So how does this work? Do I have a question template somewhere?
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Open the last example Lucio’s. It shoukd follow the same format.
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