Aragorn: “Men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it.” 1
Christine de Pizan: “Even the strongest city will fall if there is no one to defend it.” 2
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Tom Hillman
‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Or close up the wall with our English dead.’
(Henry V, 3.1)
Αἴας δὲ πρῶτος Τελαμώνιος ἕρκος Ἀχαιῶν
Τρώων ῥῆξε φάλαγγα
(Iliad 6.5-6)
In the one we fill the wall with our dead, in the other our wall breaks their phalanx.
Joe
Some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug.