Anthony Scaramucci

So my follow-up question, though,

is this is really a meditation from violence.

This is really, you're trying to get somebody to release the curse that he's under, where he's fighting as a Spartan, a Macedonian.

You know, we've been fighting.

And by the way, we, United States, has been fighting for a generation, Steven Pressfield.

We've been on the battlefield.

The U.S.

is now in an active conflict with Iran.

We've had ethnic conflicts all over the place, starting with the Gulf War I in 1990.

So does this cycle of your novel also fit our times?

Are we trying to also get a metaphorical release?

from the generational warfare that we're under.

Okay.

So, yeah, I'm raised Catholic, so we definitely believe that.

I grew up in your neighborhood.

I've been to more bar mitzvahs than baptisms.

I grew up in your neighborhood.

See, that was a Wednesday for us out on Long Island.

Okay, so let's go to Eastern thought, because one of the things that maybe we both believe, if I could have a presupposition here, is that maybe the cycle does end when the lesson is learned, as you're surmising in the book.

And so what was it about the Arcadian?