I suppose it's less about the quote origin and more about what we make it to mean :)
Recently, I learned about a historical quote, from French PM Daladier on his way back from Munich where he knew he gave everything to Hitler.
He got out his plane, expecting to be lynched or thrown oranges at, and people, when he realized people were praising him as a herald of "peace", let out this magnificent "Ah.. what a bunch of idiots".
It's beautiful and I can understand why it sticks.. Thanks for letting us know!!
Oh and there's also this one ftom H2G2 :
Slartibartfast: Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day. Arthur Dent: And are you? Slartibartfast: Ah, no. [laughs, snorts] Slartibartfast: Well, that's where it all falls down, of course
Hmm, you're right. I first read this sentence for the first time as an epigraph for a violently anti-patriotic, individualistic, fantastic and oniric book which gave me this impression. After a bit of digging, I still think there's something of my interpretation in the original material (a lettre from Vaché to Aragon from the battlefield), but it's also a dadaist piece, so not so easy to decipher, in which he wishes for the death of his own generals, somehow talks about killing Germans while wearing a monocle and, all of them soldiers, French and German, being slowly decerebrated. He was fighting and killing although he was still against the war, seemed to be borderline self-destructing, dandy, rebelling, talking multiple times about how war changed him for the worse in both his mind and his body, crippled for life too. He died at 23 from an opium overdose.
So there is certainly more to it. Indeed, he doesn't say what I implied and seemed to be such a complicated person he might have wrote the quote while thinking it is a good thing, but I suppose my interpretation isn't totally absurd.
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Oh, yeah. There's another one like this for me, a very short poem I read when I was a teenager :
"Ah, what are they dreaming...? Those who say, say, say... Yesterday I was there, today I was here"
That's so lovely!
And yet, a WWI soldier uttered that phrase. I suppose he did not share this view of WW1. Or he couldn't have wrote that.
Well everybody already knows that. Like.. The power dynamics of "vote lesser evil, vote for minority candidate, vote for a compromising pseudo-progressive party because it's still something, abstain and stay pure, better face true fascists than traitors, etc." has been around since representative regimes emerged. Yet everyone has to find his/her political and moral stance in this shitshow. And answers will differ, sometimes for legitimate reasons, sometimes because of total bs. That's all there is to it and it's not exactly news.
I'd like to know too, I strongly suggest this is a delusion. Although the saying is a cliché, it's a remarkably correct statement.
I suppose it required a great deal of courage. I hope the court will rule in your favor!
And by lifetime wage, I mean this
Edit : Keeping the post up for the message and the link, have been warned about the identity of the man in the picture. Ewwwwwwww.
Il y en a 250 qui partent à l'impression demain pour les pubs et autres formes de réclame dans ma ville. Si vous aimez le design, faites vous plaisir aussi !
Source : am French and have been laughing about this since I was 8yo. Recently read about the prefect response and it's now even better.
Today, I'd like to recommend everyone who likes a deep and tragic story to take a look at A Story Beside.
As a disclaimer, I am not affiliated at all with the studio or promo. None of that. I don't even have a yt channel to promote.
I just happened to play this game 2 years ago and it still haunts me with both joy and sadness.
To make it clear how much I loved it : I played it on the high seas, finished it, knew I was never going to play it again (for me, that's the kind of story based/narrative game you only play once), and still bought it on Steam the day after and bought it for a few friends.
While the gameplay is simple and the gfx are nothing to write home about (rpg maker, my first game of the kind), the story is superb and highly emotional. It has a simple point and click interface (definitely NOT my type of games), choices with heavy consequences and mostly non genderlocked romance, IIRC.
But what cracked my heart the most us the VA. It's beautiful behind words, haunting and powerful. It made me understand how VA is important in a game. Some sentences from this game are still with me to this day and randomly pop in my thoughts.
So do yourself a favor and play this one of these days.. Just make sure you have someone you trust close enough, because it can be really heartbreaking sometimes. Or beautiful. Or happy. Depends on your perspective.
Edit : typo in the title of the post >.<
P. S. : If I had one criticism about this game, it would be that some choices are quite obscure. A little thing you said, did or forgot to do at one point can have cataclysmic consequences later on, and it can be frustrating because back then, you didn't even know you were making a choice. I started blind, got a heartbreaking story event, restarted from the beginning with a guide to avoid the.. err.. bad endings.
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Love this one. Used to teach students in political science about the horrible thing that "political ventiloquism" is.