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The Ancient Lie: tawddgyrch cadwynog
An ancient lie controls the world, its flag unfurled before the eye: that might is right; the mystery of history is that what light the meagre flame of truth reveals, the winner steals in a rigged game won by a … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, cheating, deceit, defeat, illusion, poetic forms, tawddgyrch cadwynog, victory, Welsh verse forms
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The Jam
Don’t ask me what I’m thinking unless you want to know. Don’t ask me where I’m headed if you aren’t prepared to go. Don’t tell me where I’m headed if you’ve got no proof it’s so. Don’t act like your … Continue reading
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Tagged companionship, contradictions, conversations, deceit, illusion, travel
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Against a Greater Evil Than the Dark
I do not fear what terror comes by night and would with malice trouble fitful sleep; such bugaboos may cause a moment’s fright, but fade in cowardice as daylight creeps. More brazen ne’er-do-wells parade by day, and mask their ill … Continue reading
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Tagged charisma, coersion, commercialism, deceit, falseness, fear, hypocrisy, terrorism
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