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Originally Posted by SteelViking
By the way AVM, your no intro and no animation on the main menu screen mod has helped me out a pretty good deal. Not only does it cut down on game load time, it also makes me less hesitant to fire the game up for a test run in the first place since I know it will go faster now. So thank you for that.  |
Excellent to know my tiny mod was helpful.
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Originally Posted by SteelViking
You know what? I am in a great mood, and your mod makes my life easier. If you send me a personal pick(whatever you like). I will put together a special little mod for you that will place that picture in the frame on the navigation table in the command room of the sub(to be used with V1.2). You may very well already know how to do this, but if not, send the picture on my friend. You have earned it.  |
I can't refuse such offer. Just can't.
I'll have this then:
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/1...iecko17030.jpg
The kid on the photo is my personal Grödaz - Größter Dichter aller Zeiten - i.e. the Greatest Poet of All Time, Zbigniew Herbert. His verses have accompanied me for all my adult life, kept me standing when I was about to fall down, kept me straight when I was about to go astray. Others have Korans and Bibles - I have his books. Never tired of it.
He died 12 years ago. He is 15 on this picture (taken in 1939, so it fits). Of course he fought against Germans in the resistance - but I doubt he would mind me having his photo on my desk. He would rather - if - mind me playing a Nazi warship commander.
Here you have one of his widest known poems:
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Zbigniew Herbert, "The Envoy of Mr Cogito"
Go where those others went to the dark boundary
for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize
go upright among those who are on their knees
among those with their backs turned and those toppled in the dust
you were saved not in order to live
you have little time you must give testimony
be courageous when the mind deceives you be courageous
in the final account only this is important
and let your helpless Anger be like the sea
whenever your hear the voice of the insulted and beaten
let you sister Scorn not leave you
for the informers executioners cowards - they will win
they will go to your funeral with relief will throw a lump of earth
the woodborer will write your smoothed-over biography
and do not forgive truly it is not in your power
to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn
beware however of unnecessary pride
keep looking at your clown's face in the mirror
repeat: I was called - weren't there better ones than I
beware of dryness of heart love the morning spring
the bird with an unknown name the winter oak
light on a wall the splendour of the sky
they don't need your warm breath
they are there to say: no one will console you
be vigilant - when the light on the mountains gives the sign- arise and go
as long as blood turns in the breast your dark star
repeat old incantations of humanity fables and legends
because this is how you will attain the good you will not attain
repeat great words repeat them stubbornly
like those crossing the desert who perished in the sand
and they will reward you with what they have at hand
with the whip of laughter with murder on a garbage heap
go because only in this way you will be admitted to the company of cold skulls
to the company of your ancestors: Gilgamesh Hector Roland
the defenders of the kingdom without limit and the city of ashes
Be faithful Go
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