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There's a certain well-known tree...
Endy
Posts: 278
2/3/2012
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found this online, from the opera _Nixon in China_:
Chou:
There's a certain well-known tree
That grows from nothing in a day,
Lives only as a sapling, dies
Just at its prime when good men raise
It as their idol.
Nixon:
Not the cross?
Mao: The Liberty Tree. Let it pass.
It was a riddle, not a test.
The revolution does not last.
It is duration--the regime.
Survives in that, and not in time.
While it is young in us it lives;
We can save it, it never saves.
game continually amazes me with the amount of material put into it. : )
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sonantem aeternum ad terram
Through the darker shadows.
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Endy
Posts: 278
2/3/2012
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found a better source and it does in fact start out with that.
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/47846.html
it does make you think though.
Time periods are out of whack as anything; both the play and the actual event occurring after the present date in Fallen London.
You can also either take it as a literal tree or that it still represents liberty and you're actually talking to individuals who help you instead.
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sonantem aeternum ad terram
Through the darker shadows.
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