Some doctors and researchers believed that Edgar Allen Poe was a carrier of Tuberculosis. Nearly everyone he had sustained, intimate contact with contracted the illness, and all of them died.Like Poe, a cruel disease follows my path, spreading to my housemates and eventually killing them. This disease is Mononucleosis, known to your people as Glandular Fever. Last year, Andrew Lynch was lost to us; he fought valiantly, but in time the illness tore the life from his body. And now Gabe, my current roommate, is suffering the same fate. When will the bloodshed end? When will the agony stop?
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When you learn all the capital cities of all the countries in the world?
Appease the gods. Sacrifice Gabe to them.
The gods don't need my help; he's dying before my eyes. The courage of men has failed.
Unfortunately for us, it IS this day.
ORATORY!
"A day may come when the courage of men (and women) fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.
And if the battle lasts through tomorrow, it's not that day either.
It may or may not be the day after that, I'm not sure. Still too early to tell."
"No-one ever won a war by dying for their country. They won by making the other guy die for their country."
This is epic stuff, Nate.
I think they're parts of Julius Ceasar, Henry V, Return of the King, Dylan Thomas and Braveheart. I think the part you quoted is.. General Patton?
I liked Terry Pratchett's formulation better: as Tacticus put it, "It is always good to face an enemy who will die for his cause, as then you and he have the same end in mind". SOmething like that.
The line "We band of brothers" is definitely shakespeare...
I'm going to retire before my lack of knowledge about great literature starts to show.
I recognise all of them except Dylan Thomas. Wasn't he that welshy?
I 'pediaed it.
"Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other bastard die for his" - General Patten.
Oh, Patton. The movie is fantastic - he's full of those types of comments.
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