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arresting prose
by Propagandhi711 Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:54 pm
reading this fascinating book called "The arms of Krupp" by an english writer called manchester something. check out this passage:
Back and back, past the Friedrich Krupps and the Anton and Georg and Wilhelm and Heinrich Krupps – and the Katharinas and Helenes and Gertruds and Theodoras, the Krupp Valkyrie – back beyond the first glinting razor-sharp bayonets, the first sluglike cannonballs, the agony of the Thirty Years War and the black death – back past the early black-and-white Westphalian cottages into other times, older than the written record of Essen’s original Krupp or even the dark ages; back to the jumbled terror of the Hercynian forest, when the Rhineland was a Roman outpost, and men believed in monstrous things, and the barbaric Ruhr lay dark under the moon, its oak and bloodbeech tops writhing in the evening wind like a gaggle of ghosts, and the first grim Aryan savage crouched in his garment of course skins, his crude javelin poised, tense and alert . . . cloaked by night and fog . . . ready . . . waiting . . . and waiting.
Back and back, past the Friedrich Krupps and the Anton and Georg and Wilhelm and Heinrich Krupps – and the Katharinas and Helenes and Gertruds and Theodoras, the Krupp Valkyrie – back beyond the first glinting razor-sharp bayonets, the first sluglike cannonballs, the agony of the Thirty Years War and the black death – back past the early black-and-white Westphalian cottages into other times, older than the written record of Essen’s original Krupp or even the dark ages; back to the jumbled terror of the Hercynian forest, when the Rhineland was a Roman outpost, and men believed in monstrous things, and the barbaric Ruhr lay dark under the moon, its oak and bloodbeech tops writhing in the evening wind like a gaggle of ghosts, and the first grim Aryan savage crouched in his garment of course skins, his crude javelin poised, tense and alert . . . cloaked by night and fog . . . ready . . . waiting . . . and waiting.
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Re: arresting prose
by Propagandhi711 Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:56 pm
the book is about krupp industries, the famed german steelmaker that nearly won the war for hitler with their superior steel making technology, which resulted in tougher skin for the tanks, made cannons stronger and guns more reliable.
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Re: arresting prose
by garam_kuta Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:28 pm
Propagandhi711 wrote:reading this fascinating book called "The arms of Krupp" by an english writer called manchester something. check out this passage:
Back and back, past the Friedrich Krupps and the Anton and Georg and Wilhelm and Heinrich Krupps – and the Katharinas and Helenes and Gertruds and Theodoras, the Krupp Valkyrie – back beyond the first glinting razor-sharp bayonets, the first sluglike cannonballs, the agony of the Thirty Years War and the black death – back past the early black-and-white Westphalian cottages into other times, older than the written record of Essen’s original Krupp or even the dark ages; back to the jumbled terror of the Hercynian forest, when the Rhineland was a Roman outpost, and men believed in monstrous things, and the barbaric Ruhr lay dark under the moon, its oak and bloodbeech tops writhing in the evening wind like a gaggle of ghosts, and the first grim Aryan savage crouched in his garment of course skins, his crude javelin poised, tense and alert . . . cloaked by night and fog . . . ready . . . waiting . . . and waiting.
huh! only because it reads like kokkee's ?
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Re: arresting prose
by Propagandhi711 Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:45 pm
where does it read like kokkee? manchester's prose is on purpose whereas kokkee's is accidental. wah re wah@the ruhr lay dark under the moon, its oak and bloodbeech tops writhing in the evening wind like a gaggle of ghosts.
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