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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.


There has been no shortage of revolutionary zeal from Ezra this evening. He's not happy, and he doesn't mind sharing it. There is a touch of the Toussaint L'ouverture's about his breast beating however, which does not bode well for the sustainability of his approach.

There's only so much grumbling that l'état can take before des mesures draconiennes become necessary...

Comments

yamini said…
Ez seems to be under an attack from the foreign forces. Please help him in repelling the attackers instead of using draconian measures against the brave warrior!!!

Love to henry and ez, both.
SH -ic said…
hello dear friend just being here for giving you a note i m back ..
Kris McCracken said…
Yamini, attack by Henry, more like. It's like the Battle of Tannenberg most nights around our place...
Kris McCracken said…
One Planet, I hope that your summer holidays did the trick!
Kris McCracken said…
Good to see you, PakKaramu!
Priyanka Khot said…
Wow! they have started fighting is it... nice.. now all you need to make matters more perfect is a set of drums and 4 drumsticks. :-)
Roddy said…
The child looks like he is crawling out from his upended wind surfer.
Kris McCracken said…
Priyanka, it is in their nature. We have drums too...
Kris McCracken said…
Roddy, something like that.

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