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.
Reminds me of a panel in one of Herge’s books, where Tintin and Snowy are lost in the mountains in some hostile Slavic country and they stumble across a small group of soldiers or border guards having wine and cheese in a setting like this. Peril ensues.
can i get a grande fiesta bowl pleeez seenyor?
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a panel in one of Herge’s books, where Tintin and Snowy are lost in the mountains in some hostile Slavic country and they stumble across a small group of soldiers or border guards having wine and cheese in a setting like this. Peril ensues.
ReplyDeleteAddendum: “King Ottokar’s Sceptor”. https://www.tumblr.com/tintin-official/183882097131/king-ottokars-sceptre-this-version-colourised-in?source=share
ReplyDeleteScenes like this make me think that we have over complicated our lives.
ReplyDeleteThere really is no thinking about it. Our lives are definitely so f*cked up and complicated.
DeleteGetting to town is a PITA, but it would make you enjoy not leaving the house until you absolutely had to do so.
DeleteAs it should be.