1947, the Devil comes to collect. --- anon apologizes for complete butchering of original request. there is most certainly not enough germany or history in this (also, it's quite lacking in intellectual vigor), and too many words and run-on sentences etc. it's unfinished until i kick myself into a stint of intensive world war ii studying. in the meanwhile, i hope someone? anyone? enjoys this lengthy piece where i've tried, apparently, to break the record for number of allusions. hum. sorry, op! D: i hope you'll enjoy it anyway.
Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; 1
anonymous
December 28 2009, 18:46:47 UTC
"I think hell's a fable," Prussia says, the remark caught in his throat, greased out by mucus and facetiousness. "That's redundant. If you're in possession of a fact, then state it. You don't hear me with 'the fact of the matter is' and 'I must draw attention to.'" "Hell is a fable," Prussia tries again with a rigid jaw and an arched tongue that bitterly presses unto the curved edifices behind his front teeth, holding the equally bitter aspersions back. "'Think so still, 'til experience changes your mind,'" he smiles slyly, with just a whiff of sulfur. "Is that what that bloody tart said
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Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; 1
anonymous
December 28 2009, 18:48:21 UTC
"How much of that run was me. You know what noses Him off? When it's so merged, brutality and civility. Crime and a system. The Catholic Church, their greed, their lies, their lust, their politics, and me, oiling the gears off." ".. The Spanish Inquisition." "I had the squirt half-convinced he was right by the end. Crazy, isn't it? What people will believe in, what you men delude yourselves into." "You're wrong." "I know. But I suppose you don't mean Wrong as opposed to Right; you mean lower-case w and lower-case r, hm?" "You weren't responsible for any of that. I'm sure if we could take those wheels, your so proclaimed greased wheels, and examine those fingerprints, it would all just be, just, us. It was all ever, just, us. People. Lonely people. Goddamn lonely people, all in their own miserable battles," Prussia replies bitterly. The twentieth century has, of late, wherefore he knows not had him at a rope, as if somehow "'The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.' I'm good at that, too.
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Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; 3
anonymous
December 28 2009, 18:49:52 UTC
whoops, i totally know how to count. previous/parent post to this should be part 2, not 1He lets go, smearing the stains of Prussia's blood in his own hand, and he smiles while Prussia glazes over the symmetrical plan, the traces of his iron cross, its dimensions landscaping the torn points of flesh on his hand. He stares at the iron cross, and he feels vaguely nautious, nostalgic, queasy and only slightly frightened at his relationship to something so remote, so
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Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; notes
anonymous
December 28 2009, 19:45:54 UTC
allusions, etc, in order; part 1 -Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; "I think hell's a fable"; "Think so still, 'till experience changes your mind." -Both Marlowe and Shakespeare are believed to have had homosexual encounters. -Lucifer and his rebellious angels revolted against the army of Heaven led by Michael - hence the awkward confrontation between Michael and Lucifer before all heaven breaks loose, where the popular condemnation of Luce's pride occurs, where he's stripped of his title as 'Lucifer; Light Bringer, Son of the Morning Star,' and named 'satan; adversary' (because I love English poets, I relayed this mostly with Milton's Paradise Lost). -'Father of Lies' is just another title for Luce. The 'His' and 'He' refer to God, not Luce. -Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ends with Faustus being dragged to hell. Think the shortened, American version of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange where Alex stays a baaaad boy. -Goethe's Faust ends with Faust returning to the grace of God. While he's partying with Mephistophilis, he basically ruins the life of this
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Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; notes 2
anonymous
December 28 2009, 19:47:03 UTC
part 2 -Spanish Inquisition. Word up, son. Crazy shit, and it still bewilders me that the Popes were named 'Innocent' and 'Pious.' Irony. -Plato; "Be kind for everyone you meet is finding a hard battle. Everyone is lonely." -Shakespeare's Hamlet; "I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, and it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems etc etc..." -The Usual Suspects; "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Anachronism! -Determinism and existentialism. Apparently if you're human, you must be a humanist. Anyway. -Titian lmao. Titan, Venetian Renaissance artist, is known for his oil paintings with this deep, deep blue color, almost like the title Prussian Blue. -HISTORY. Prussia made its claim to power as the gunpowder empires (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire) were beginning their waning decline. Also, imperialism, wassup. New World/globalization (trend of 1450-1914-now) begun with loads of guns and violence.
Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; notes 3
anonymous
December 28 2009, 19:50:30 UTC
part 3 -Flesh wounds; crucifixion. -Headcanon/canoncanon, Prussia began as the Teutonic Knights. Religious. They rose to prominence during the Crusades (which, uh, even more blood and pillaging and rape). -Code of Chivalry. Middle Ages. Knights and ladies and stuff. -Cupid was an annoying cunt. Blindfolded. Greeks were more forgiving. Romans hated him, because Romans didn't care for hippy talking about the true nature of the universe; they're too busy conquering shit. Arguably, every empire afterwards (European empire, European empire) has only wanted to mimick the success of the Roman Empire and lay claim to this idea of a Second/Third/whatever Rome: Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Russian Empire, Napoleonic Empire, ...Hitler's Germany. Also, Roman Empire and Prussia have in common that intense adherence to military and duties of the state. (Schrotter's 'Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country.') -Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, "To love another person is to see the face of God." (okay, really, this is
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1933, at a crossroad. Prussia sells his soul to the devil in exchange for keeping Germany safe, for his new boss makes him uneasy.
1947, the Devil comes to collect.
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anon apologizes for complete butchering of original request. there is most certainly not enough germany or history in this (also, it's quite lacking in intellectual vigor), and too many words and run-on sentences etc. it's unfinished until i kick myself into a stint of intensive world war ii studying. in the meanwhile, i hope someone? anyone? enjoys this lengthy piece where i've tried, apparently, to break the record for number of allusions. hum.
sorry, op! D: i hope you'll enjoy it anyway.
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"That's redundant. If you're in possession of a fact, then state it. You don't hear me with 'the fact of the matter is' and 'I must draw attention to.'"
"Hell is a fable," Prussia tries again with a rigid jaw and an arched tongue that bitterly presses unto the curved edifices behind his front teeth, holding the equally bitter aspersions back.
"'Think so still, 'til experience changes your mind,'" he smiles slyly, with just a whiff of sulfur. "Is that what that bloody tart said ( ... )
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".. The Spanish Inquisition."
"I had the squirt half-convinced he was right by the end. Crazy, isn't it? What people will believe in, what you men delude yourselves into."
"You're wrong."
"I know. But I suppose you don't mean Wrong as opposed to Right; you mean lower-case w and lower-case r, hm?"
"You weren't responsible for any of that. I'm sure if we could take those wheels, your so proclaimed greased wheels, and examine those fingerprints, it would all just be, just, us. It was all ever, just, us. People. Lonely people. Goddamn lonely people, all in their own miserable battles," Prussia replies bitterly. The twentieth century has, of late, wherefore he knows not had him at a rope, as if somehow
"'The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.' I'm good at that, too. ( ... )
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part 1
-Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; "I think hell's a fable"; "Think so still, 'till experience changes your mind."
-Both Marlowe and Shakespeare are believed to have had homosexual encounters.
-Lucifer and his rebellious angels revolted against the army of Heaven led by Michael - hence the awkward confrontation between Michael and Lucifer before all heaven breaks loose, where the popular condemnation of Luce's pride occurs, where he's stripped of his title as 'Lucifer; Light Bringer, Son of the Morning Star,' and named 'satan; adversary' (because I love English poets, I relayed this mostly with Milton's Paradise Lost).
-'Father of Lies' is just another title for Luce. The 'His' and 'He' refer to God, not Luce.
-Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ends with Faustus being dragged to hell. Think the shortened, American version of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange where Alex stays a baaaad boy.
-Goethe's Faust ends with Faust returning to the grace of God. While he's partying with Mephistophilis, he basically ruins the life of this ( ... )
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-Spanish Inquisition. Word up, son. Crazy shit, and it still bewilders me that the Popes were named 'Innocent' and 'Pious.' Irony.
-Plato; "Be kind for everyone you meet is finding a hard battle. Everyone is lonely."
-Shakespeare's Hamlet; "I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, and it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems etc etc..."
-The Usual Suspects; "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Anachronism!
-Determinism and existentialism. Apparently if you're human, you must be a humanist. Anyway.
-Titian lmao. Titan, Venetian Renaissance artist, is known for his oil paintings with this deep, deep blue color, almost like the title Prussian Blue.
-HISTORY. Prussia made its claim to power as the gunpowder empires (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire) were beginning their waning decline. Also, imperialism, wassup. New World/globalization (trend of 1450-1914-now) begun with loads of guns and violence.
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-Flesh wounds; crucifixion.
-Headcanon/canoncanon, Prussia began as the Teutonic Knights. Religious. They rose to prominence during the Crusades (which, uh, even more blood and pillaging and rape).
-Code of Chivalry. Middle Ages. Knights and ladies and stuff.
-Cupid was an annoying cunt. Blindfolded. Greeks were more forgiving. Romans hated him, because Romans didn't care for hippy talking about the true nature of the universe; they're too busy conquering shit. Arguably, every empire afterwards (European empire, European empire) has only wanted to mimick the success of the Roman Empire and lay claim to this idea of a Second/Third/whatever Rome: Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Russian Empire, Napoleonic Empire, ...Hitler's Germany.
Also, Roman Empire and Prussia have in common that intense adherence to military and duties of the state. (Schrotter's 'Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country.')
-Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, "To love another person is to see the face of God." (okay, really, this is ( ... )
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a slight nitpicking though, is that it probably would have been a bit easier on the eyes if the sentences are double spaced.
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