"STEADFAST IN LIFE VALIANT IN DEATH", which is obviously a quote but makes my modern brain, which objects to the idea of glorifying war, think, 'How can you be valiant if you're dead?'
What is it a quote from? I googled and could only find references to the memorial itself.
Think of valiant as having the older definition of 'worthy' rather than the normal one of 'strong and courageous', and maybe it won't worry you so much. Alternatively take it as meaning 'at the time of their dying' not 'after they have died'. Although I think the writer probably meant the inscription to mean all of those things.
As you have perhaps heard there is apparently some hope of another station picking up Ripper Street. I do hope so, although if that is the end it was a good ending.
I enjoyed Musketeers as well. My main problem is I can't tell anyone apart - they all look identical in identical beards and with identical mud coloured clothes. (Except the king, he is fairly distinctive at least, and Peter Capaldi who has a beard and mud coloured clothes but I recognise him.)
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Date: 2014-01-25 11:47 am (UTC)What is it a quote from? I googled and could only find references to the memorial itself.
Think of valiant as having the older definition of 'worthy' rather than the normal one of 'strong and courageous', and maybe it won't worry you so much. Alternatively take it as meaning 'at the time of their dying' not 'after they have died'. Although I think the writer probably meant the inscription to mean all of those things.
As you have perhaps heard there is apparently some hope of another station picking up Ripper Street. I do hope so, although if that is the end it was a good ending.
I enjoyed Musketeers as well. My main problem is I can't tell anyone apart - they all look identical in identical beards and with identical mud coloured clothes. (Except the king, he is fairly distinctive at least, and Peter Capaldi who has a beard and mud coloured clothes but I recognise him.)