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- From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
- Subject: Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner
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- michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
- >Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
- >: This one has bugging me for a long time.
- >: Spoken by Rutger Hauer, as Roy in Blade Runner
- >: Fiery the angels fell
- >: Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders
- >: Burning with the fires of (Hawk? sounds like.)
- >: Anyone know where this comes from?
- > The word is "Orc". I have a vague memory that this was from T.S. Eliott,
- >but I'm probably wrong on this.
-
- Yes. Yes, the word is "Orc" and yes, you are wrong :-) :-)
-
- Actually, the exact quote above might be Elliot, but there's a very similar
- one from Blake, plate 11 of "America, a Prophecy":
-
- Fiery the angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
- Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc;
- . . .
-
- (It was the "Orc" reference that tipped me off. Had to be either
- Blake or Tolkein, and it didn't sound much like JRR, so I rooted around
- in William Blakes "Daughters of Albion," "America" and "Europe" until
- I found it. I confess I don't have the complete works of all major writers
- memorized.)
-
- -Mujtaba Ghouse
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- "Oh my piglets, we are the origins of war, not history's forces, nor the
- times, nor justice nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas,
- nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed
- wars, it runs in our blood like syphilis. Dead bodies rot in streams because
- living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a
- little?"
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