[trepidacious but obligated]
No, @ghoti, I cannot let you in good conscience.
Hugh who?
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Dear Jesus, another owl.
And anotherOwl.
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And here we are
existing for all time.
Witnessing across passage of the ages,
Eternal morality plays,
Lyrical standards,
Timeless stories.
And over the centuries, we have told and retold those tales.
Mixed-them-up.
Made call-backs jokes.
Remixed our stories.
Memes have existed
from the morning of the world
and shall exist until
the last star falls
from the night.
Although I have taken the form of
Pontius Pilate,
Memes are of all persons,
as well of no-persons,
and thus immortal:
as a god.
And so, I do submit, a new badass meme for the ages…
This “news”
hath been faked.
Sad!
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If we recount the better part of a millennia, I sincerely hope that 48 hours is well within the margin of error of the larger narrative. That having been said…
…we resume our story at the very moment that Mr. Collins (@David_Falkayn) and Zero Demos (@daneel) have brought the story to within a hair of its own conclusion.
Immortals - please supply to me via PM your respective stances for Round 1. Let the final battle be joined.
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(Tangential reminder to all participants that may or may not wish to observe the last battle for The Prize:
@Donald_Petersen, @KeisterButton, @cleveremi, @eve, @pogo, @glutnix, @DreamboatSkanky, @hadley, @durhamindurham, and @Nightflyer …)
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(As well as…
@manwich, @strokeybeard, @SteampunkBanana, @old, @MalevolentPixy, @ChickieD, @gwwar, @penguinchris, and @TobinL …)
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Mr Demos,
Our conversation, begun so long ago in Alexandria, resumes.
However this turns out, we will be conversational partners for eternity.
I couldn’t be more delighted!
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Go, ye heroes, go to glory,
Though you die in combat gory,
Ye shall live in song and story.
Go to immortality!
Go to death, and go to slaughter;
Die, and every Cornish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water.
Go, ye heroes, go and die!
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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Διαδήλωση…
Sorry, Homer, that’s the best I can do with these impoverished scripts. You have no idea how poorly modern communication captures Classical Grace.
But at least your timeless opening line fit into a tweet.
– Yours in Truth,
Mr. Collins
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Surely you meant to say “Homeric”, Mr. Collins (although all but the most hidebound would probably accept “Ionic”).
I know I speak for all the residents when I say that we respect your eagerness to engage the foe. However, allowing your frenzied battle-rage to affect your normally punctilious scholarship could prove to be your Achilles’ heel.
Other Pendragon
Knight
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Other, his pedantry is contagious! Resist! Resist!
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Sorry, Myf. When you rummage around in Mr. Collins’ attic, some is bound to rub off.
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Other,
I meant “Classical Grace” as a description of style. Think of Pindar and Praxiteles.
You are of course correct that Homer was preserved in Archaic Greek, primarily Ionic and Aeolic .
I do appreciate your studious attention to details.
Now if only Zero would join our discussions.
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On a rooftop in the warehouse district, the two nemeses finally confront each other on this rain-slicked night.
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rolls tgt tgt rolls
R1: CRIT (00+) 70 Agg v. Nor 30 ( 24) miss [Zero Demos is Unyielding]
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Mr. Collins (6/6) v. (5/6) Zero Demos
Immortals - please submit your stances for round 2 via PM.
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Oh, it’s going to go like that, is it?
At least it’ll be over quickly.
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