And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
, 'La Chasse-galerie' by Henri Julien ,illustrating a Quebec legend about some lumberjacks who made a deal with the devil to win a canoe race, or to get home quickly to see their girlfriends, and are doomed to sail through the sky forever. In Chambly QC they make a beer called Maudite (damned or accursed) commemorating the story. It's 8 per cent alcohol.
Taken many a canoe trip but if that scene occurred it would be my last…
ReplyDeleteLooks more like concept art for another horrible Indiana Jones movie.
ReplyDeleteI was never able to paddle that fast!
ReplyDeleteThey're coming in for a landing.
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ReplyDelete'La Chasse-galerie' by Henri Julien ,illustrating a Quebec legend about some lumberjacks who made a deal with the devil to win a canoe race, or to get home quickly to see their girlfriends, and are doomed to sail through the sky forever.
In Chambly QC they make a beer called Maudite (damned or accursed) commemorating the story. It's 8 per cent alcohol.