Troynovant - the city of nobly recurring knowledge

<body text="black" link="blue" alink="red" vlink="red" bgcolor="white" class="ground"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"><span class="bold">Troynovant</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="bottom"> <p><a href="Troy-Town/Contents.html" target="_self" title="General Contents - Troynovant"><span class="italic">General Contents</span></a></p> </td> <td align="right"><font color="#990d03"><span class="bold">Renewing Troy</span></font><span class="italic"><font color="#000099">  recurrent inspiration:</font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <p><a title="Recent additions at Troynovant" href="Troy-Town/Recent-by-Date.html" target="_self"><span class="italic">Recent</span></a> | <a href="Troy-Reviews/Books-by-Title-A.html" target="_self" title="Book Reviews by Title"><span class="italic">Reviews</span></a> | <a href="Troad-moraine/Essays-by-Title-A.html" target="_self" title="Essays - Troynovant"><span class="italic">Essays</span></a></p> </td> <td align="right"> <p class="vnote"><font color="#14028b">Troy ...  Rome ... London ...</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="right"> <hr class="blue" noshade size="6"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <a title="Sinister Barrier - Eric Frank Russell" href="https://www.troynovant.com/Atalanta/Bookcase-M/Russell-Eric-Frank/Sinister-Barrier.html" target="_self"> <img src="https://www.troynovant.com/Atalanta/Bookcase-M/Russell-Eric-Frank/Xanthus/Sinister-Barrier-Mar-1939-100.jpg" alt="Sinister Barrier (Unknown, March 1939, Scott) - Eric Frank Russell" width="100" height="142" align="left" border="0" hspace="24" vspace="2"></a> And you tell me, friends,<br /> that there is no disputing of taste and tasting?<br /> <p>But all of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.</p> <p class="sml">Friedrich Nietzsche<br /> "On Those Who Are Sublime"<br /> <span class="book1">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</span>, II</p> <p align="center"> <table border="3" bordercolor="blue" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" color="blue"> <tr> <td> <table border="1" bordercolor="blue" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" class="italic"> You are well ventured to Odysseus' gates<br /> into many-layered <span class="bold">Troynovant</span>,<br /> the city of nobly recurring knowledge.</span> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" colspan="2"> You promised once, a progeny divine<br /> Of Romans, rising from the Trojan line,<br /> In after times should hold the world in awe,<br /> And to the land and ocean give the law.<br /> <p>Virgil<br /> <span class="book1">The Aeneid</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">For noble Britons sprang from Trojans bold,<br /> And Troynovant was built of Troyes' ashes cold.<br /> <p>Edmund Spenser<br /> <span class="book1">The Faerie Queene</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" colspan="2"><img src="https://www.troynovant.com/Troad-album/decor/open-book-desk-quill-s.jpg" align="left" border="0" alt="Open book, quill pen" hspace="60" vspace="2" width="128" height="102"><font color="#990d03"> <span class="italic">In these great times</font></span><br /> <font size="-1">which I knew when they were this small ...</font> <p>Karl Kraus<br /> <span class="book1">In These Great Times</span><br /> Vienna, November 1914</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="sml" colspan="2"> <p><span class="bold">Robert Wilfred Franson, editor at Troynovant</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <p class="sml"><span class="italic"><span class="bold">They who make, may find.</span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="right"><hr class="blue" noshade size="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="note" colspan="2"> <p class="sml"><span class="bold">No Frames?</span><br /> This site is designed for frames-capable browsers,<br /> but you can access our index pages, top left or below.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" class="note" colspan="2"> <table class="vnote" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" frame="" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr class="sienna" noshade size="8"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="bold">Troynovant</span>, or Renewing Troy:</td> <td align="right" valign="top"><a title="Recent additions at Troynovant" href="Troy-Town/Recent-by-Date.html" target="_self">Recent</a> | <a href="Troy-Town/Contents.html" target="_self" title="Troynovant Contents">Contents</a> | <a title="Strata at Troynovant: the topical Troad" href="Troad-pyroxyline/Strata/above-Strata.html" target="_self">Strata</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>  recurrent inspiration</td> <td><a href="https://www.troynovant.com/" target="_top" title="Troynovant, or Renewing Troy">www.Troynovant.com</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right">© 2001-2025 Franson Publications</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>