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"This marriage is not to take place, neither to-morrow, nor at any other time."
[Questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, nè domani, nè mai.]
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (I promessi sposi), Chapter 1, 1827 [to Don Abbondio].

Reimagined by Victor Alexeeff [Bizet, Carmen] — Habanera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlqKbnZesSg

"Don't expect that: Plautus wouldn't allow it. He broke the bridge on the son's road home."
[Plautus noluit: Pontem interrupit, qui erat ei in itinere.]
Plautus, Casina, Prologue [girls fight for this marriage].

"Hearing this, Vercingetorix broke all river’s bridges and began a march on opposite bank."
[Qua re cognita Vercingetorix omnibus interruptis eius fluminis pontibus ab altera fluminis 
parte iter facere coepit.]
Julius Caesar, The Gallic wars (De Bello Gallico), Book VII, Chapter 34.

"Meanwhile, a band of Germans tried to break down the bridge being built at Batavodurum, 
but night put a stop to the battle before it could be resolved."
[Interim Germanorum manus Batavoduri interrumpere inchoatum pontem nitebantur – 
ambiguum proelium nox diremit.]
Tacitus, Histories, Book V, Chapter 20.

9S ferrets out that second machine suffers from acrophobia which gives vertigo & dizziness.