Essay(s)
+Prose
In three years, Cicero fell from grace and found himself ridiculed and rejected by the Roman aristocracy he had toiled strenuously to become part of. When Clodius burned down his house on the Palatine Hill in 58 BC, the destruction of the symbolic marker of his political reputation dealt a great blow to Cicero’s ego. The following year, he returned from exile and fought to get his house back at public expense, detailed in De Domo Sua…
Sophie Yang ‘26 Lawrenceville
Snow comes in ephemerality, yet always appears and disappears on her own whim. She signals her arrival with minute signs: hot breath can be seen in animation, past when grey clouds long to thunder from the sky. She hushes the lips of those breathing to a chatter, and she muffles the thunder that pridefully boomed only weeks before. No weather or falling beauty is like the snow: the torment of rain has Apollo’s power—to heal and give life, or to destine life to death with his asphyxiating disease…
Isaac Moon ‘27 Lawrenceville
The gumball machine has stood outside “Martinez Toolshop” since the handmade building was erected by two hopeful men under the weight of family and of the hand-splitten logs carried between them. This gumball machine remembers before others know and it has twisted sickly sweetness into the stomachs of every growing customer to feed the hungry store. It remembers the capsules poured into its glass belly, taken to the back of the store by the son of the two hopeful men…
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-The Arbre-itrary Team
