#cornered — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Bringing this thread🧵(https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114566537889133502) back for the #NoirAlley encore crowd
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And our #NoirAlley leading men this week are Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Edgar Barrier, Steven Geray, and Morris Carnovsky
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This week’s #NoirAlley Leading ladies are Micheline Cheirel and Nina Vale AKA Anne Hunter (also pictured: Dick Powell)
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Posters for “Cornered” from The USA, Argentina, Spain and Italy.
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Cornered • Austin, Texas, USA
Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2024
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Putin cornered, with few good options remaining to him, would be perfectly capable of deciding to go with a bad option. On top of that, if his rumoured illness is true, and the war is his way of trying to ensure a lasting legacy, he has little to lose from it.
That's why I stocked up on potassium iodide immediately after the invasion.
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