"If the breaking day sees someone proud,
The ending day sees them brought low.
No one should put too much trust in triumph,
No one should give up hope of trials improving.
Clotho mixes one with the other and stops
Fortune from resting, spinning every fate around.
No one has had so much divine favor
That they could guarantee themselves tomorrow.
God keeps our lives hurtling on,
Spinning us in a whirlwind."
~ Seneca, Thyestes, 613
Seeing the reversals of fortune as states that had seemed on Election Day to go for Trump now flipped for Biden, this seems a very appropriate meditation. But even now, of course, the course of fate could reverse again, and as more votes are counted, things could change. But for now - the breaking day saw Trump proud, the ending day sees him brought low, as Georgia and Pennsylvania have both flipped to Biden!
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