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#2368
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Death by Mirrors
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It'd be an interesting history lesson though.
Remember Benjamin Franklin's quote as he signed the declaration of independence. "We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Or the classic line from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Mercutio ends up deadly wounded by a stab in the chest and remarks "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Go back even further and you find a hidden gem in ancient Rome. The apocolocyntosis (roughly transformation into a pumpkin) parodies common apotheosis texts where deceased of great virtue are glorified in literature. In the satiric text, dying emperor Claudius is cited to utter "woe is me, I think I have shat myself" with his dying breath, and the next line the author Seneca continues all snarky "If he did it, I don't know - but I can attest he never gave a shit about his people" (even more accurately translated: he screwed them all over, he soiled everything he touched. concacare is versatile like that)
Even the bible is full of puns, but most of them tend to get lost in the translation. "And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man (adam) should scatter (zara) seed (zera) on the ground (adama). - Mark 4:26"
I'd say it's pundamental knowledge, but...
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Posted 11-10-2018, 07:22 AM
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