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160. Coward

The Allusionist

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Is It a Coward?

The idea that the only way to have not walked into your death without shame would be to have like this medical label upsets me a lot. Coward was also one of two categories for indian people that the british came up with after the 18 57 indian uprising against british rule. Our latest incarnation of it has been, good times make weak men. Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. That could almost be a sort of cliff's notes version of the decline and fall of the roman empire. But really, again, all it is is their colonial leaders say, go and do this thing that is almost certainly goin o get you killed

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