Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for January 06, 2017
January 05, 2017
January 07, 2017
Transcript:
tyr: y'know, everyone is so down on war, like it's always bad...but war can have peaceful effects! it can deter violence! it can terrify those who would do evil by threatening to render them limb from limb and flay the skin from their-- ralston: uh, you're peacefully foaming at the mouth a little. tyr: sorry...
smparadox almost 8 years ago
Hey, he is the god of war of a pantheon populated almost entirely by gods of war…
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 8 years ago
THESPIS: What’s this about there being no battles?
TIMEDON: I’ve abolished battles; it’s an experiment.
MARS: [spring up] Oh come, I say—
THESPIS: Quiet then. [to Timedon] Abolished battles?
TIMEDON: Yes, you told us on taking office to remember two things. To try experiments and to take it easy. I found I couldn’t take it easy while there are any battles to attend to, so I tried the experiment and abolished battles. And then I took it easy. The Peace Society ought to be very much obliged to me.
THESPIS: Obliged to you. Why, confound it. Since battles have been abolished, war is universal.
TIMEDON: War is universal?
THESPIS: To be sure it is. Now that nations can’t fight, no two of ’em are on speaking terms. The dread of fighting was the only thing that kept them civil to each other. Let battles berestored and peace reign supreme.
—Gilbert & Sullivan: “Thespis; or, The Gods Grown Old”
eljoya almost 8 years ago
Ralston, it’s just the foam from his mead.