Mel wrote:
> 
> 
> spjricks{at}gmail.com wrote:
>> On Mar 11, 1:55 am, Duggy  wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 11, 5:03 am, diyan55  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Which is correct re: the Ranger Pledge?
>>>> "...We live for the One, we die for the One."
>>>>                         OR
>>>> "...We live for the One, We *would* die for the
One."  (Zathras)
>>>> "To Dream in the City of Sorrows" does not use
the word 'would'.
>>>> After reading, several times, that there was no adlibbing during
>>>> filming, there must be a reason. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Zathras has access to a time machine.  He can check how he dies.
>>>
>>> He lives for the one.  He would die for the one, but he knows that he
>>> dies using the wrong tool to fix a time stabliser.
>>>
>>> ===
>>> = DUG.
>>> ===
>>
>>
>> The most important thing to realize is that the line, "We walk in the
>> dark places no others will enter" is much, much cooler than
"we live
>> for the one, we (would) die for the one."
>>
>>
> 
> Or, "We stand at the bridge, and none shall pass!" Always
makes me think 
> of Khazad-dum.

     Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may!
     I, with two more to help me, will hold the foe in play.
     In yon strait path, a thousand may well be stopped by three:
     Now, who will stand on either hand and keep the bridge with me?

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump 
of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that 
because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in 
the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I 
can't see it that way."
   -- The last words of Bat Masterson
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