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Let's play this game.

You find a quote and get everyone to guess what book or who the author is.

I'll start with one.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night, just because rough men stand at the ready to do violence on their behalf
 
Allow me one?

"I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them."

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jm10 said:
@Steyn777 George Orwel


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And BOOM, he stepped on the mine.

In 1890 the poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling was published as part of a collection of verses with a military theme. The name Tommy Atkins or simply Tommy has historically been used to represent the generic soldier in the British Army. Kipling’s poem depicted and criticized the ingratitude of the civilian population for the service provided by the common soldier.

Kipling’s poem referred to soldiers guarding civilians while they sleep, and that imagery was part of the misattributed quotation being explored. The term “red-coats” referred to a military uniform and by extension a member of the military. The phrase “paradin’ in full kit” referred to parading in full uniform.
Orwell was aware of the above verse, and he was sympathetic to some of the sentiments that it expressed. In 1942 Orwell published an essay about Kipling in which he referred to a phrase in the poem “Tommy”:
 
Steyn777 said:
And BOOM, he stepped on the mine.

In 1890 the poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling was published as part of a collection of verses with a military theme. The name Tommy Atkins or simply Tommy has historically been used to represent the generic soldier in the British Army. Kipling’s poem depicted and criticized the ingratitude of the civilian population for the service provided by the common soldier.

Kipling’s poem referred to soldiers guarding civilians while they sleep, and that imagery was part of the misattributed quotation being explored. The term “red-coats” referred to a military uniform and by extension a member of the military. The phrase “paradin’ in full kit” referred to parading in full uniform.
Orwell was aware of the above verse, and he was sympathetic to some of the sentiments that it expressed. In 1942 Orwell published an essay about Kipling in which he referred to a phrase in the poem “Tommy”:
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Hahaha, give me a point atleast for something i remember from school days


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Steyn777 said:
And BOOM, he stepped on the mine.

In 1890 the poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling was published as part of a collection of verses with a military theme. The name Tommy Atkins or simply Tommy has historically been used to represent the generic soldier in the British Army. Kipling’s poem depicted and criticized the ingratitude of the civilian population for the service provided by the common soldier.

Kipling’s poem referred to soldiers guarding civilians while they sleep, and that imagery was part of the misattributed quotation being explored. The term “red-coats” referred to a military uniform and by extension a member of the military. The phrase “paradin’ in full kit” referred to parading in full uniform.
Orwell was aware of the above verse, and he was sympathetic to some of the sentiments that it expressed. In 1942 Orwell published an essay about Kipling in which he referred to a phrase in the poem “Tommy”:
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I have knowledge of neither the above, yet I have come across that phrase before. This is now going to bug me to no end...

Thanks @Steyn777, I have learned something.

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