one. text. locked to the visitor's network. march 16, early afternoon.

[componere]

Before our great leaders or some overly sanctimonious citizens decide to deep clean for the sake of some city beautification program, let's get a little proactive! Has anyone had a chance to grab photographs of the lovely murals around the city? Please don't say you grabbed video of one on this network. We all know it has a rather biased set of viruses. (Not a knock on you, Miss *Hyun-ae; we all know you try your best.)

Since I'm sure that this skirts the line between legality and the no-no line (encouraging terrorism? Moi? Oh no, never!), let's keep this more or less sanitized. Please don't be stupid enough to upload your picture to the network. Instead, a location and a description of what you saw there will do. Discussion of the symbolism is all right, if you think you can get away with it. If you don't think you'll be safe communicating through this network at all, but you'd still like a description of your mural here for posterity's sake, please feel free to contact me through my inbox and I'll arrange something with you.

[[ ooc: inbox link now edited to something less not his ic inbox am sorry ]]

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[greatseal]

All right, then. Here's what it said:

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few

If I had to guess, it sounds like it may be referencing something else.

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[componere]

"Something else"? As in an event, or as a verse to a whole?

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[greatseal]

Part of another poem. Actually, I asked *Hyun-ae to search it for me.

[FW: masque.txt ]


What's interesting is that the poem is talking about peaceful protest. Not fighting back or backing down, even if the other side uses violence...

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[componere]

So either this is a case of a hypocritical verse wending its way through our dear underground resistance's literature, or they may just be stupid. Either way... This doesn't seem to bode well for our side, mm?

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[greatseal]

It depends on how they meant it, probably.

But I think it's most likely they're just trying to look cool.

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[componere]

Trying's cute, to be sure, but is it working? That'd be the issue here.