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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Then I saw their fate come upon them and that was terrible past speech. It came upon them as they walked the streets of their city. I have been in the fights with the Forest People—I have seen men die. But this was not like that. When gods war with gods, they use weapons we do not know. It was fire falling out of the sky and a mist that poisoned. It was the time of the Great Burning and the Destruction. They ran about like ants in the streets of their city—poor gods, poor gods! Then the towers began to fall. A few escaped—yes, a few. The legends tell it. But, even after the city had become a Dead Place, for many years the poison was still in the ground. I saw it happen, I saw the last of them die. It was darkness over the broken city and I wept.
[...]
I told and he listened. After that, I wished to tell all the people but he showed me otherwise. He said, "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places." He was right—it is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.
Nevertheless, we make a beginning. it is not for the metal alone we go to the Dead Places now—there are the books and the writings. They are hard to learn. And the magic tools are broken—but we can look at them and wonder. At least, we make a beginning. And, when I am chief priest we shall go beyond the great river. We shall go to the Place of the Gods—the place newyork—not one man but a company. We shall look for the images of the gods and find the god ASHING and the others—the gods Lincoln and Biltmore and Moses. But they were men who built the city, not gods or demons. They were men. I remember the dead man's face. They were men who were here before us. We must build again.
Excerpted from "By The Waters of Babylon," by Stephen Vincent Benét, 1937
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We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men.
Stephen Vincent Benét
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Today I learned...
In 1894, Washington Irving wrote a short story titled "The Devil and Tom Walker," about a man who sells his soul to the devil.
In 1936, Stephen Vincent Benét was inspired by Irving's story to write a similar one, titled "The Devil and Daniel Webster," where a man who sold his soul to the devil is defended by Webster, a real-life attorney.
In 2018, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina aired an episode titled "The Trial of Sabrina Spellman," which features a version of Daniel Webster (played by John Rubinstein) who has sold his soul to the devil.
In 2021, John Rubinstein appeared in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, based on Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," playing a man who has, in a manner of speaking, sold his soul.
#headless series#shipwrecked comedy#chilling adventures of sabrina#washington irving#stephen vincent benet#i love it when a coincidence comes together
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"And who could hear the Dead Man's tale?
The orphan only heard the hail
Of vultures screaming for their share..."
The Ballad Of William Sycamore by Stephen Vincent Benét (1927)
#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#rdr2#rdr2 photography#read dead redemption 2 photography#rdr2 arthur
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By the Waters of Babylon - Stephen Vincent Benét
#hockey poetry#this is my first time trying this so please be mostly nice#but also if anyone has any tips or tricks#or they notice something wrong#please let me know#i don't want to be That Guy#nolan patrick#philadephia flyers#the three other versions of the first slide of this staring at me from my drafts like 👀#picture of nolan patrick staring forlornly at the flyers practice you will always be famous to me#if u notice the random image sizing and somewhat grainy pictures. no u dont
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supernatural s9e14 captives (w. robert berens)
right, back to angel politics -_- and sam breaking dean's heart a little bit
sam's in his pjs, are you allergic to getting comfortable to sleep, dean? at least he doesn't have his boots still on i guess. also i appreciate the ghost assisted bunker tour
DEAN
Kevin, I'm sorry. You did not choose this life. You busted your ass, you lost everything, everyone you've loved... And your reward? Getting killed... On my watch. If I... It was on me. It was my fault, and...
And there's nothing I can do to make that right. I am so sorry.
--
KEVIN
No, this is not happening. Didn't spend months struggling to break through the veil just to get stuck listening to Dean Winchester having a self-pity session. Didn't hear enough of those when I was alive.
thank you, kevin! made me smile. the power of dean's pity party guilt made kevin so annoyed he powered right through the veil. i was wondering about that, if closing heaven meant no people going in too, thanks for the clarification, show.
SAM
You feel that? I think I felt a chill.
DEAN
Yeah. It's 'cause it's cold.
*rimshot*
DEAN
Crowley, it's Dean. Call me when you get this.
SAM
Really, Dean?
DEAN
What?
SAM
That's your third unanswered voicemail. You ever think maybe he's just not that into you?
i thought y'all weren't brothers anymore, sam. no teasing!
show also circling back to mrs tran, which i didn't have a lot of faith they'd do (i mentioned recently i couldn't remember if they'd confirmed if she'd died or not)
SAM
So, what, you want to give him a medal? I mean, Crowley's the one who put them in the cells in the first place.
DEAN
Yeah, I know. I'm just talking it out. You know, working the case. Businesslike.
laughed at the "working the case", then really laughed at businesslike
castiel, are you going to make good decisions today?
from the wiki:
Sam: D. Webster? As in like Daniel Webster?
Dean: Well, I know a lame Crowley in-joke when I see one.
The storage lockers were rented under the name "D. Webster." "The Devil and Daniel Webster" is a 1937 short story by Stephen Vincent Benét. It is a retelling of the story of Faust in which a farmer sells his soul to the devil and is defended by Daniel Webster. The real Daniel Webster was a famous 19th century orator and senator.
dean understands this reference?? that seems.... obscure.
Shortcut to Happiness is a modernized version set in the publishing world, starring Anthony Hopkins as a publisher named Daniel Webster, Alec Baldwin as a best-selling (via the devil) but terrible author named Jabez Stone, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as a female version of the devil. This version was made in 2001, but was halted before completion, before finally being completed and given a limited release in 2007.
maybe this is why he knows of it? he's mentioned jennifer love hewitt several times before 🤪 early seasons deep cut?
1.10 Asylum
Dean: Hey, Sam, who do you think is a hotter psychic: Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, or you?
2.01 In My Time of Dying
Dean (to Sam): Give me some ghost whispering or something!
2.16 Roadkill
Dean: Sammy's always getting a little J. Love Hewitt when it comes to this.
BARTHOLOMEW
But with you by my side -- the new boss and the ultimate rebel working together -- think of the message that would send to would-be dissidents. They'd finally understand that resistance is futile.
LOL the borg catchphrase. concerned castiel is going to make another epically bad decision but they got a friend to torture and kill to remind him
well that was miserable, sam telling mrs tran.
dude looks like young mark ruffalo at this angle / actual mark ruffalo
those are some spiffy lookin dressy boots for his fed getup. i like those
BARTHOLOMEW
You weren't. Not then. But since then, you've slaughtered thousands of angels. You killed Malachi's man for his Grace.
CASTIEL
Who I was, what I did, that's not who I am.
he's making some points. lol bart let's settle this with fisticuffs. this plotline....
both of their outfits are nice
think about when they used to wear these suits...
s1e13 route 666
KEVIN
Can you two... Get over it? Dudes, just 'cause you couldn't see me doesn't mean I couldn't see you. The drama, the fighting... It's stupid. My mom's taking home a ghost. You two... You're both still here.
SAM
Of course. Promise.
i don't care if it doesn't make sense i am on board with this. yes, make a promise to the dead boy that you'll work it out. and immediately sam walks away, of course haha. they can both go sulk in their rooms
trying to remember how sam handled it when he was trying to earn back dean's trust, i remember dean being an asshole about it though. so far dean doesn't seem to be trying to do anything in particular to earn sam's trust back (i'm not sure how you go about it anyway). but i don't even know because there's too much shit going on at once perpetually. let's get some fencemending focus.
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I have been forbidden to walk more than 3 meters or so at a time, lift anything heavier than 2.5 kilos or put any stress of any kind on my troublesome body. There is also some issue with using my desktop/laptop because it strains my R rotator cuff, and my vision sucks, so I can't write on my phone. All that being said, I'm not dying, and I am free to put all the stress I want on my brain, so today I rewatched The Sorcerer's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets in order to track the acting career of Tom Felton's eyebrows. They first took on a supporting role early in COS, in the Borgin and Burkes scene, and became more active through the rest of the film. I will probably be watching the next six HP films over the next 3 days if I can bear it.
"When the pain outwits it, the body dies." -- Stephen Vincent Benét
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The tough line broke in two with a crack like a musket-shot, and out of the deep of ocean, a mile away, the creature rose, majestic. Neighbors, that was a sight! Shaking the hook from its jaw, it rose, the sea serpent of the Scriptures, exact and to specifications as laid down in the Good Book, with its hairy face and its furlong on furlong of body, wallowing and thrashing in the troubled sea. As it rose, it gave a long low melancholy hoot, like a kind of forsaken steamboat; and when it gave out that hoot, young Jim Billings, the boy, fainted dead away on the deck. But nobody even noticed him—they were all staring at the sea serpent with bulging eyes.
— DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE
SEA SERPENT
by Stephen Vincent Benét
The ink-black sea churns as a mighty creature dives beneath your ship. Its incredible size exceeds four galleons in length, set stern-to-bow, and you know, deep in your bones, that it could sink you on a whim.
And yet you feel a pull, a tug towards the water. An insane urge to jump over the side and join the great beast below.
What will you choose?
I leap over the side.
I command the crew to ready the guns.
I curl into a ball and cry, letting fate decide what will happen.
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New (Old) Cryptid: Historical Figure Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852), lawyer and statesman, known for many things in US history, one of which being a proponent of compromise and unity in pre-Civil War America.
He was apparently SUCH a proponent that author Stephen Vincent Benét was inspired to write short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936).
An excerpt:
Every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster— Dan'l Webster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she should, rock bottomed and copper sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.
Pretty sure that if politicians keep arguing instead of solving problems, he's gonna haunt every one of us. (Which means yeah, I'm pretty sure he'd fistfight any modern politician, but that might just be my libertarianism speaking.)
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“I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel’s heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and i felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird; alone upon the great river, the servant of the gods.”
-Stephen Vincent Benét
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THE THANKSGIVING of GENOCIDAL DISGRACE. BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE.
Whether you want to acknowledge it or not and say it was something else other than GENOCIDE what the Europeans did to the Native Americans turning it into a THANKSGIVING of GENOCIDAL DISGRACE, is up to you.
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We can also say the same thing is happening to the Palestinian people by the Zionist backed by guilt rotten USA, the similarity seems like a genocidal carbon copy of Native Americans and Palestinians put back to back. Lets not forget the root causes, the British Empire relenting to their Bastard son USA. The proud Prime Minister of Britain of Hindu ascendancy is doing to the Palestinian what his British predecessors have done to the Hindu people, let alone the killing 165 million Hindus that the British murdered in the span of 40 years in India, no consciousness there, as the Zionist to the Palestinians as the Nazis to the Jews. there is no sympathy, are there, huh. In conclusion, we can say that we have the British to thank for this genocidal tendency by inheriting, apparently, their genes (genocidal mental genes or disease, call it what you want). Oh, and by association we can also say that the Zionist have been affected by this mental genocidal disease as well.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 American Western historical drama television film adapted from the 1970 book of the same name by Dee Brown. The film was written by Daniel Giat, directed by Yves Simoneau and produced by HBO Films.
The book on which the film is based is a history of Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing upon the transition from traditional ways of living to living on reservations and their treatment during that period. The title of the film and the book is taken from a line in the Stephen Vincent Benét poem "American Names." It was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
See the film...
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American Names
I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,
There are English counties like hunting-tunes
Played on the keys of a postboy’s horn,
But I will remember where I was born.
I will remember Carquinez Straits,
Little French Lick and Lundy’s Lane,
The Yankee ships and the Yankee dates
And the bullet-towns of Calamity Jane.
I will remember Skunktown Plain.
I will fall in love with a Salem tree
And a rawhide quirt from Santa Cruz,
I will get me a bottle of Boston sea
And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues.
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
Rue des Martyrs and Bleeding-Heart-Yard,
Senlis, Pisa, and Blindman’s Oast,
It is a magic ghost you guard
But I am sick for a newer ghost,
Harrisburg, Spartanburg, Painted Post.
Henry and John were never so
And Henry and John were always right?
Granted, but when it was time to go
And the tea and the laurels had stood all night,
Did they never watch for Nantucket Light?
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmédy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
(source: American Names by Stephen Vincent Benet - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry)
NOTES READ AND / OR LISTEN
When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of 'Civilization'SOURCE: When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of 'Civilization' | HISTORYok.ru
VID-1: https://ok.ru/video/7355251034675
THE WAR OF 1812SOURCE: When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of 'Civilization' | HISTORYok.ru
VID-2 https://ok.ru/video/7355260996147
THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORNSOURCE: When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of 'Civilization' | HISTORYok.ru
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Efemérides literarias: 22 de julio
Nacimientos
1789: Antonio Alcalá Galiano, político y escritor español (f. 1865).
1800: Jakob Lorber, escritor esloveno (f. 1864).
1849: Emma Lazarus, poetisa estadounidense (f. 1887).
1878: Janusz Korczak, pediatra y escritor polaco (f. 1942).
1884: Miguel Meléndez Muñoz, escritor puertorriqueño (f. 1966).
1895: León de Greiff, poeta colombiano (f. 1976).
1898: Stephen Vincent Benét,…
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Ninth House Inventory pt.5
Wolf's Head's Tomb
"The strength of the pack is the wolf. The strength of the wolf is the pack."
"Teachings: Therianthropy.
Notable Alumni: Stephen Vincent Benét, Benjamin Spock, Charles Ives, Sam Wagstaff."
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Review: By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benét
Review: By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benét
This is a bit complicated.
When I was in seventh grade I first read Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story By the Waters of Babylon. I enjoyed it but the only thing that stuck with me were the words “There was also the shattered image of a man or a god. It had been made of white stone, and he wore his hair tied back like a woman. His name was ASHING, as I read on the cracked half of a stone. I…
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