Expatriates (2013)
““As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man/There are only four things certain since Social Progress began./That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,/And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; “And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins/When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,/As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,/The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terr...or and slaughter return!”
—Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” 1919 Highway 441, Near Zellwood, Florida—January, the Third Year The morning of January 22nd dawned with clear skies. It would be a sunny day. As the sky in the east lightened, a stack of photocopied one-page flyers was passed down the line, with the whispered words, “Share these—just one copy for every five men, pass them down.”
The sheet read: Instructions to Our Roadblock Ambushers If we fail today, we’ll be dead or slaves tomorrow.MoreLess
—Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” 1919 Highway 441, Near Zellwood, Florida—January, the Third Year The morning of January 22nd dawned with clear skies. It would be a sunny day. As the sky in the east lightened, a stack of photocopied one-page flyers was passed down the line, with the whispered words, “Share these—just one copy for every five men, pass them down.”
The sheet read: Instructions to Our Roadblock Ambushers If we fail today, we’ll be dead or slaves tomorrow.MoreLess
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