In Peter Ackroyd’s novel, The Fall of Troy, Alexander Thornton, one of the many visitors to the archaeological dig says:"I like to begin my work at the earliest possible time. My mind is clearest at dawn. When the world awakes, so do I.”
Source: Peter Ackroyd, The Fall of Troy (London: Vintage Books, 2007), 128.
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Dr. Geoff Pound
Image: “When the world awakes, so do I.”