8FOLD: Red Hart # 9: "Deorum Et Machina"

[Tom Russell]

On Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:21:34 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 10/16/2014 5:53 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
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> > NOX
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> > I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
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> > As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
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> > Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel!
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> > [...]
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> > RED HART
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> > Man, this is kind of nuts.
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> gee, Tom, did you *intend* for this to scan like a verse of the Battle 
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> Hymn of the Republic?  8{D>

Not scan like, no-- it's a direct quote. :-)

> And congratulations on finishing a cosmic series where *most* of the 
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> near-infinite threats cancel out.

Thanks.

==Tom