MrScorpio
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Fri Nov-21-08 05:56 PM
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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. |
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That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, swiftly, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving ....
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Fri Nov-21-08 06:02 PM
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1. "Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. |
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"Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you -- I mean I'm no, I can't -- I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas -- I mean --"
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Fri Nov-21-08 06:05 PM
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2. Saigon... Shit. I'm still only in Saigon |
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Fri Nov-21-08 06:07 PM
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3. We train young boys to drop fire on people, and yet their commanders will not allow them |
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to write the word "fuck" on their airplanes, because...that's obscene!...
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Fri Nov-21-08 06:20 PM
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like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.
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