Thursday, April 21, 2011

Hard Things: You Are Already Dead

The tiled post reminded me of Cathal Brugha.

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Cathal Brugha & The Great Escape
"He appeared to be the very incarnation of one of those brave Irish warriors of yore, the story of whose bravery in battle has been handed down to us in song and story. Cathal Brugha's courage in 1916 and the calmness with which he then faced the British when riddled with their bullets (twenty five wounds of which five were after cutting through arteries) is only surpassed by the epic of his own passing in 1922. Then, alone of all the garrison, he refused to surrender, walked towards his enemies with his revolver blazing until he fell, mortally wounded."
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Hard Things: You Are Already DeadCaveat #1:
This post is advanced ugliness; you will be well-served by having read in advance and thought through the implications of these previous posts, along with their associated comments:

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