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Joshua I should look up what Santayana said before writing this, but as usual I will blunder forward without doing my research: Is Santayana looking for Mars just to balance Venus in the opening because he thinks there should be another reference to the role of gods? Maybe Lucretius had no desire to balance gods but to leave them behind, and the full reason for ending on the death and destruction note is that he intended to state or at least evoke the true ending of the Plague story, which is th…