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[Lukin]

most Twainisms

Heh, Bukowski did mention Twain in Hollywood book.

Jon-​Luc kept right on talking. He was being dark and playing Genius. Maybe he was a Genius. I didn’t want to get bitter about it. But I had had Genius pushed at me all through school: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, Chekov, all those dullards. And worse, Mark Twain, Hawthorne, the Bronte sisters, Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, it all just laid on you like a slab of cement, and you wanted to get out and away, they were like heavy stupid parents insisting upon regulations and ways that would make even the dead cringe.

eh, Jon-Luc Modard is actually Jean-Luc Godard, lol.

 

[Lukin]

After a decade of fighting, Basil defeated Samuilo at the battle of Kleidon in 1014. The cruel vengeance which Basil exacted from the thousands of prisoners taken at Kleidon- he blinded all save one in every hundred, and complelled the sighted ones to lead their blind comrades back to Prilep, where Samuilo died of shock at the piteous sight- earned him the name of Bulgaroctonos (Slayer of the Bulgars).""]"After a decade of fighting, Basil defeated Samuilo at the battle of Kleidon in 1014. The cruel vengeance which Basil exacted from the thousands of prisoners taken at Kleidon- he blinded all save one in every hundred, and complelled the sighted ones to lead their blind comrades back to Prilep, where Samuilo died of shock at the piteous sight- earned him the name of Bulgaroctonos (Slayer of the Bulgars).

 

[Lukin]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

The worst atrocities, strange as it may seem, were carried out by members of the intelligentsia. The case of Peter Brzica is undoubtedly one of the most incredible in this category. Peter Brzica had attended the Franciscan College at Siroki Brijeg, Herzegovina, was a law student, and a member of the Catholic organization of the Crusaders (Krizari). In the concentration camp at Jasenovac, on the night of August 29, 1942, orders were issued for executions. Bets were made as to who could liquidate the largest number of inmates. Peter Brzica cut the throats of 1,360 prisoners with a specially sharp butcher's knife. Having been proclaimed the prize-winner of the competition, he was elected King of the Cut-throats. A gold watch, a silver service, and a roasted sucking pig and wine were his other rewards. A doctor, Dr. Nikola Kilolic, himself a Croat, was an eyewitness in the camp when the event took place, and subsequently testified to the authenticity of this astonishing deed.

:jaw:

BONUS:

Benito Mussolini once bombarded Hitler with notes: "...Ante Pavelic, a movie producer's dream of a Balkan terrorist, is a short, blocky, grim, unsmiling man, with a knobby face and insulting eye."

"Such atrocities occurred with a frequency that shocked even the Ustashi's ideological allies: the Italian Fascists and the German Nazis. This to such an extent that on more than one occasion both the Italian and German authorities not only deprived the Ustashi of the command of whole regions, but actually ousted them altogether, replacing them with Italian or German troops, to prevent a repetition of the terrible individual and mass murders committed by Pavelic's Catholic units."

 

[deaftears]

I stand by my testimony about Peter Gabriel. What he did was worse than gaslighting. He is a brutal person and cowardly as they make men.

 

[Lau2046]

[FONT=&quot]A Midsummer Night’s Dream[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Puck. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Hamlet
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[FONT=&quot]"This above all: to thine own self be true"
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[FONT=&quot]"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions".
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[FONT=&quot]Henry V
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[FONT=&quot]King Henry: If little faults proceeding on distemper shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye, when capital crimes, chewed, swallowed and digested appear before us?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]King Henry: I will weep for thee; for this revolt of thine, methinks, is like another fall of man. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Cymbeline - [/FONT][FONT=&quot](T[/FONT][FONT=&quot]he passage from Shakespeare read by actor Richard Burton at the funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco)
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[FONT=&quot]Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.

Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave![/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]MacBeth
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[FONT=&quot]Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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