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dear_mun2013-02-11 04:20 am
pickthebottleup) wrote in dear_mun2013-02-11 04:20 am
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On being considered for lastvoyages
There is no good death. The idea is a fiction, written by those who'd have men go to die for them. Dulce et decorum etc, you've read your histories, you know it too. The only decent oblivion comes from drink, to put you in such a state that when life leaves you, it might creep away without your notice.
That's how I meant to go, at least.
But-- and do not mistake this for my holding one death as good and the other bad, or for my saying that I'd rather go this way than that way, but I must say, that whatever the death itself, as far as last moments go... or as any moments go at all, I doubt that I could ever surpass those.
So look elsewhere. I'd not make much of a reformer, and I don't want another spin at the wheel. Not for god, nor the devil, nor for no naval emperor, nor heaven, hell, humanity, or France.
[Nor for him?]
[Yeah obviously that's where this is going.]
[There's literally nowhere else to go with you.]
...For him.
That's how I meant to go, at least.
But-- and do not mistake this for my holding one death as good and the other bad, or for my saying that I'd rather go this way than that way, but I must say, that whatever the death itself, as far as last moments go... or as any moments go at all, I doubt that I could ever surpass those.
So look elsewhere. I'd not make much of a reformer, and I don't want another spin at the wheel. Not for god, nor the devil, nor for no naval emperor, nor heaven, hell, humanity, or France.
[Nor for him?]
[Yeah obviously that's where this is going.]
[There's literally nowhere else to go with you.]
...For him.