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To: SkyPilot
"Two men abseil from the stands and dangle unhindered"

Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Sounds like lines from Shakespeare.

14 posted on 11/03/2015 3:21:45 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL
Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor. Sounds like lines from Shakespeare.

It's actually a line from the French poet Paul Verlaine. When the BBC broadcast that verse - as it did on June 5, 1944 - it was a sign to the French resistance that the D-Day was to begin within 48 hours.

I remember that fact from a LP record on D-Day that I heard as a child. The actual broadcast was included in the record. For some reason it stuck with me.

22 posted on 11/03/2015 4:33:20 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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