i really like: "to knead, form out of clay,"
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anyway, if it is natural for Scott's hero in Gladiator to feel this way
natural to us, in the audience, having seen what he has been thru, to accept that of course he feels that was, as in, as a viewer "i would, too."
well, shit like this, as bad as this, crimes against humanity at this level have happened thru time, continue to happen, will likely continue to happen today
in all this time, even centuries ago, when people had no doomscrolling, no tv, no fomo, and only time
do we honestly think not a single human being has ever been capable of what seems so readily believable and likely achievable when it comes to maximus when russell crowe delivers this line in the script?
like.. in the span of simply ~known~ still recoverable human history, uncontroversial, in historian consensus,
maximus had it pretty ok
maximus did not suffer death by a thousand cuts
凌遲 Lingchi: usually translated "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts", is a form of torture and execution that was used in China from roughly 900 until it was banned in 1905.
a thousand years of death by a thousand cuts
not one guy was like:
nah. fuck this. im coming back here. cos fuck you.
im simply saying
all the devotional practice
all the sacrifice
all the monks and nuns there ever were
the prophets, priests, martyrs
not one?
not one
has managed?
press x to doubt
that's where i am on it
and if one has managed
a kid who sat in a cave on the side of a mountain since he was five years old until he died at 112 in the 1300s
if one person ever managed
well why just one
have fifty thru time?
a thousand?
what is the recipe?
different every time?
a couple thousand?
a hundred thousand?