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Jade 2022-01-28 08:22:59
The Old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori?
Rudyard Kipling, poet, novelist, and a landmark figure in English literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and was proposed to be awarded the title of British Poet Laureate. and a knighthood, both of which he...
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Raphael 2022-01-28 08:22:59
Live in the shadow of my father or die in battle
Stumbled across another HP-Daniel movie over the weekend
, a movie with a World War I background, Dan played an 18-year-old army officer, it's strange, I thought so too. But after watching it, I think it's okay.
Adapting a true story about the first British Nobel Prize winner The story of...
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[last lines]
Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?/ None this tide,/ Nor any tide,/ Except he did not shame his kind-/ Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide./ Then hold your head up all the more,/ This tide,/ And every tide;/ Because he was the son you bore,/ And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!
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Rudyard Kipling: [on why the British Empire must fight] You see, we have built up a family - a family of nations - and it must be protected. That is why Jack must fight! To protect the family!
Elsie Kipling: [Totally not buying it] You're protecting the wrong family, father.
