Pater nosta, qui es in coelis: sanctificetur nomen
tuum.
Adeniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas, tua, sicut in coelo,
et in terra.
There was a platform in the center of the court
and on this lay Damiens, his body bound
with iron hoops. First, his right hand was thrust into
sulfurous fire;
he uttered a frightful shriek. Next
they attacked him with glowing tongs
and tore away strips of bleeding flesh.
Molten lead, wax, pitch, and burning oil
were poured into the wounds,
and a team of horses were summoned to dismember him.
But although the animals were whipped and spurred
they were not strong enough.
Two more horses were affixed to the chains
so that finally the left leg of Damiens was sucked
out of its socket and wrenched loose from his body
while the people cheered. The next limb to be torn...
Mon frere, a-t-il tout ce qu'il veut?
Has my brother everything he needs?
To what prayer will you listen, if not to this?
One heart, one way.
There is a day of the year
when eels go down to the sargasso Sea. And i
must go with them. Come with me,
or stay.
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I am full of dreams and charged with a strange excitement!
Although I am not at ease in this world, there is no
one who can stop me!
I met a man who said that he was on the road to Cordoba.
But he said to me that he never would reach Cordoba.
I asked him why
and he explained that death was watching him.
death was gazing down on him from the towers of Cordoba.
Whenever the barrel is turned, the crystals tumble.
The first Ch'in Divine august One
learned, to his satisfaction and to his dismay,
that he had conquered every civilized land;
for he believed that beyond the borders of his empire
nothing existed but howling winds and barren waste.
At this same time Alexander
had overrun the Western World. So it was
that two men not knowing of the existence of each other
shared a common delusion.
Someone has just touched me! A human hand has touched
me! - I am ill and need to lie down.
In the land of the Tepehuane on the floor af a canyon
somewhere in the Sierra Madre are three things:
a silver mine, in the white ruins of a hacienda,
and a grove of orange tree. The mine is called
El Naranjal, after the orange grove, and whoever
can find it will be rich for the rest of his life;
his children after him and theirs after them.
Every so often, down a certain river whose origins are
lost among the peaks of the Sierra Madre,
and orange comes floating. Then it is that
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men look to the mountains and begin to dream,
for they know this orange has come from the grove
where the great mine is and all night long
they lie awake beside their drowsy wives,
thinking of the bright morning when they shall
enter into distant mountains to discover El Naranjal
Direct us, O God! We must find the way, or we are lost.
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
now this bell, tolling softly for another,
says to us that we must dir.
We are 8 goths and 22 Norwegians
on a journey of exploration
from Vinland around the west.
By a lake with 2 skerries
one day's travel north from
this stone we made camp. One day
we fished. we came home and
there were 10 of our men red
with blood and dead
with blood and dead. Ave Virgo
Maria. Save us from evil. We have
10 men by the sea to protect our
ships 14 days' travel from this
island in the year of Our Savior
1362
Things that remain and are not diminished by time
are whichever live in men's hearts, or have fallen
or have been thrown into the sea.
It is well known that in Mare Tenebrosum
sea creatures with fins heavier than bronze
disport themselves, while the waters of the equator
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spout upwards in hideous black jets. There
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