#cornered — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cornered, aggregated by home.social.
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It is dangerous to attack a man whom you have deprived of every means of escape except by fighting, for necessity is a violent schoolmistress.
[Il fait dangereux assaillir un homme, à qui vous avez osté tout autre moyen d’eschapper que par les armes : car c’est une violente maistresse d’escole que la necessité.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment [De l’incertitude de nostre jugement],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 47 (1.47) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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And our #NoirAlley leading men this week are Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Edgar Barrier, Steven Geray, and Morris Carnovsky
#TCMParty #MemorialDay #Cornered #DickPowell #WalterSlezak #StevenGeray #MorrisCarnovsky #EdgarBarrier #FilmNoir #DarknessAtNoon