THE RUBICON
Alea Iacta Est · The Die Is Cast

THE RUBICON

The Life, Death & Deathlessness of Julius Caesar — as confessed by Mark Antony, who made him a god.

“They will tell you it took twenty-three wounds to kill him, and they will be right, and they will have told you nothing.” — Mark Antony, dictating from Alexandria, 30 BC
The Confession

One man became so large that death could not hold him.

Mark Antony — the man who gave the funeral oration, who lifted the bloodied toga over the crowd and made a corpse into a god — tells the whole of Caesar from his own last days in Alexandria: the awe and the horror in the one hand, and never one without the other.

Dignitas

The line he would not surrender

A ledger of honor no man could short by a single entry — the wire that runs from the boy who defied Sulla to the dictator who walked guardless into the Senate.

Celeritas

The speed that outran belief

He arrived where he could not yet be, conquered a third of a continent — and, alone among conquerors, wrote the account himself, in prose like a blade.

Clementia

The mercy that killed him

He forgave enormously and never once forgot. To be pardoned by Caesar was to be entered in the ledger forever — and some men would rather die than live on another man's permission.

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The Author's Three Trades

Where Is Your Rubicon?

Caesar crossed his. These are the author's — three working paths, each a threshold you can cross toward income and protection. Nothing here interrupts the story; it waits for you at the end of it.

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The Hand That Kept the Star

About the Author

Cờ Vàng Ba Sọc Đỏ

A refugee at eleven — a boy from Vietnam who passed through a Malaysian camp, was raised by a foster family, worked three jobs, and earned a business degree from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. A decade in the FBI's Foreign Counter-Intelligence division. Over twenty years, he reunited his entire family in America — his own long game, won.

Now semi-retired, he helps his wife run the Nail Art salon in Bloomington, Minnesota, and builds testaments like this one: practical guides, literary histories, and bilingual works for the Vietnamese-American diaspora — writing in English as CuongFBI / “Mr How To…” and in Vietnamese as PhạmZuy CườngFBI.

“All limitations are self-imposed.”

“The more things you do, the more life you live!” — CườngFBI

“A life worth living, is a life always worth recording.” — CườngFBI

May you always be loving, laughing & living your life to the fullest!