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"But courage consists in knowing how to choose the lesser evil, dreadful though it appears."
[« Mais le courage consiste à savoir choisir le moindre mal, si affreux qu'il soit encore. »]
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parme), Chapter XX, 1839.

Kasumi: We should probably wrap this up. You look pretty silly standing there talking to an advertisement.

J-Wright — Never There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chFOzZhe0H8

"My love is a running sore that ever pours tears, for not a scar stauncheth now the wound; 
I am in an evil case and find no cure nor have I even Machaon to apply gentle salve I need.
I am Telephus, girl; be thou faithful Achilles, let thy beauty sate desire by beauty smitten."
Macedonius the Consul, Greek Anthology, Book V. Erotic Epigrams, #225 [κόρη, σὺ δὲ γίνεο πιστὸς ᾿Αχιλλεύς· Be my Achilles, baby!]

The corpse of Commander Shepard has been skyjacked & after attempt at synthetic conversion, set to work for the Reapers.

"The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I knew nothing of the facts. 
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be 
relied on in a newspaper. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, 
than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, of the wars of Lacedaemon and Athens, 
of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too, the Bonaparte and parricide scoundrel of that day."
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, Monticello, January 12, 1819.

Pretty Panther feat. Anna Mae — Stronger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTuG_53DOQI

"There is an absolute reciprocity of adaptation. The pleasure which we derive from any display of human ingenuity 
is in the ratio of the approach to this species of reciprocity."
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848.

Benedetto Antelami — Baptistery of Piazza Duomo Parma, pink Verona marble, 1200:
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"And she bare her firstborn son, and wrapped him in 'clothes, and laid him in a cratch,
[and laid him in a feed-trough] for there was no place to him in no chamber."
Luke 2:7, Wycliffe's Bible.

The Zooforo winds around the base of the Baptistery: seventy-five panels of monsters, animals & humans.
The four major virtues, Chastity, Charity, Faith & Hope provide the key to the interpretation of those figures.

The core spirit of Sovereign slaughtered asari & turian tools because same as rachni queen their bridge spells total failure.