What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons…

– Wilfred Owen

  • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    How many brain sugeries did he perform? How many spaceflight trajectories did he calculate? How many high speed computer processors did he engineer?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, I’ll go ask the dead man about his immortal fictional character.