"Politics: a Trojan horse race."
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec, in Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane] (1957) as translated by Jacek Galazka (1962)
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Trojan horse
The Trojan Horse, in lore about the Trojan War was a huge wooden horse (Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos), which hid a select force of warriors inside, used by the Greeks as a subterfuge to gain entrance to the city of Troy. After a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greek armies left it before the gates of the city and sailed away. The Trojans then pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy, and those inside crept out of the horse in the night and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek f
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