Word: conturbat
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Englishmen who fought at Ypres and the Somme carried the Oxford Book of English Verse in their haversacks; such literary brigades in the trenches would find their minds chiming with a line of Keats, or William Dunbar's Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The Americans in Viet Nam usually packed more kinetic cultural effects. Images given them over the years by movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie...
...Timor Mortis conturbat me," wrote the 15th century Scottish poet William Dunbar, and he continued...
...listen. Kennedy and the Democrats may listen--if approached, not if ignored. Nobody will listen if the liberals merely sit back--"above politics"--and refuse to contribute in any meaningful way to the fulfillment of a liberal program--refuse, indeed, to do anything but cry out, "Timor mortis conturbat me!," while at the same time inviting destruction through lack of meaningful effort to prevent...
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