Teaser quote:
All right, this particular canard has had all its feathers pulled off many times. I claim no originality. People explain it over and over on blogs. Every twenty seconds, somebody asks about it, and the Explainers go to work. The “quote” goes like this:
And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.
“Alexander” is, of course, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon in the 4th century BC. A legend in his own time, etc, he died in his early thirties, etc, having won many battles. The quote is poetic. It touches a theme dear to everyone’s heart: the Tears of the Monster. However! from time to time, some bright person is forced by the laws of physics to ask: “In what ancient text does that passage appear?” Answer: It appears nowhere.
