/lit/ - Literature

>>21298588
Baseball is the most beautiful sport. There is so many hidden layers to it. There is always something happening, if you know the game. And I say all this as a aussie that didn't grow up on the game.

>I said: “As your honor has stated, this is not a case of ‘whodunit.’ I stand before you today accused, agent, and executor to the accused’s estate. I am all the above, and of the crime I am accused, with material causality and evidence, I am surely guilty; but not of malintent! No, this was a simple error. The aggravating factors and compounding elements to the crime of which I am accused are—as I will shortly demonstrate to the jury—well, these factors and elements of which I speak, they are, well, that is to say… in a manner of speech, and to quote greater men to whom I have been both supplicant and erstwhile protégé, and whose words of wisdom are those circling and helicing the one cosmic truth which binds all otherwise unrelated phenomena together into one great tapestry, well, they form—if you will permit the analogy—nominally-discrete subsections, independently and infinitely bounded—well, ahem—to say that my words today ring echoes of these truths would be to fall short of my intended significance. I would forsake the spirit of this truth entirely in paraphrasal. Ergo, I will choose to come at the issue from another angle… which is to say—well, ahem—rather not to speak in rank falsity than in gleaming truth, but to say that the defendant did not mean to cause the plaintiff any harm nor inconvenience, and must therefore and forthright be acquitted and found innocent of culpability by means of undue fear of reprisal for the initial actions which thereby caused the aforementioned inconvenience and injury. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would like to invite you to take a stroll with me… to—well, ahem—perambulate the globe of this issue, so to say… by which I mean that by the time I have laid out my case and summarily quit my locution—of whose nature, it must be said, are notions such as ‘precision’ and ‘brevity’ held close and dear to its blackened cockles—you will have no choice but to render a verdict of ‘not guilty.’
>“The defendant has some history, your honor, which led to the actions taken yesterday, and which must be factors considered in weighting the defendant’s liability for his actions. Most crucial in this case is, of course, not action but inaction. He admits that, in a perfect world, Dr. Bucksneed should have been alerted to the hazard. The defense will, later on, call upon a witness who will confirm for the jury that had my client adequately alerted Dr. Bucksneed to the danger, the causality of the act is such that an injury to the flesh of the underside of the foot would have been otherwise unlikely to occur. We do not bring argument to this court today that my client is innocent of the actions which arose to said injury. He is most assuredly guilty; it was his hand which propelled the chisel with misapprehended force unto the window which thereby shattered. It was my client’s voice which failed to alight with warning to Dr. Bucksneed, in whose anger—”

>in all reality, this guy was an 'ist, and the other guy wasn't actually into that 'ism, but a totally different one! it's fascinating stuff, really!

>>20258134

From my Wikipedia research this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_of_Metz is the farthest back ancestor we can confirm of Charlemagne. His dad was either this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnoald who comes from senatorial roman lineage or this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodegisel who was a Frankish duke.

If we go by Arnoald's lineage the farthest back patrilineal ancestor we can confirm of his is Ferreolus, there wasn't a wiki page of him but there is of his son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonantius_Ferreolus_(prefect) who was a Praetorian prefect. There is no information about his father so patrilineally it ends there. However the wife of the Prefect ancestor was apparently the niece of Emperor Avitus so if this line is true Charlemagne would have an illegitimate familial connection to a Roman Emperor.

Even with Bodegisel’s lineage, though not patrilineal there is still a Roman connections as both his father and grandfather married daughters of Roman senators.

The farthest back patrilineal line of Bodegisel that is confirmable is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munderic.. However Munderic alleged that he was the son of the son of a Frankish king this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigobert_the_Lame whi would be the end of the road at least patrilineally, as the only information about his father is that his name was Childebert. Not the Merovingian king btw this Childebert died in 509 while the Merovingian Childebert lived for another 50 years.

Something cool I just figured out, so the farthest back Charlemagne patrilineal ancestor of the Arnauld line was named Ferreolus
> ferreolus in latin means "iron"
> his sons name was Tonantius Ferreolus
> tonantius in Latin means "more thunderous"
> his name was literally “MORE THUNDEROUS IRON"
Especially badass considering he helped Aetius defend against the Hun invasion.

>>19438801
there is a parallel plane of civil existence that you can tap into with special augmentations. it has 1. existed forever 2. existed in every culture 3. is pre-cognition.

think of it like shining a really bright light through dense fog, it looks like its a solid orb of light but once the fog dissipates the light of truth is gone. The Bogs where onto this, they knew what i am talking about.

>>19421418
SO ANYWAY WE DIDN'T HAVE A THREE-EIGHTHS ARTICULATION PIN BUT AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT I FOUND AN OLD DOLLY SHANK ADAPTER AND WE STUCK THAT IN AND IT HELD FOR JUST LONG ENOUGH

>And get this, I already have a girlfriend. Don't get upset though, she's 2-D. 2-D as Two-Dimensional, get it? Heh. Yeah she's great. You know they always say you can't trust 3D girls. Nothing personal against you though. Heh, anyways....