continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm realizing why this is so familiar- it's very like he's trying to channel Kilrain from Gettysburg/The Killer Angels here.

[(Anonymous)]

"Colonel, darlin', I hate to be a-wakin' ye, but there's a message here ye ought to be seein'." (loc 448)

"Well, these poor fellers did not want to fight no more, naturally, being Maine men of a certain intelligence, and refused, only nobody will send them home, and nobody knew what to do with them, until they thought of us, being as we are the other Maine regiment here in the army. There's a message here signed by Meade himself. That's the new General we got now, sir, if you can keep track as they go by. The message says they'll be sent here this morning and they are to fight, and if they don't fight you can feel free to shoot them." (loc 465)

"But you know I can't promote you. Not after that episode with the bottle. Did you have to pick an officer?"
Kilrain grinned. "I was not aware of rank, sir, at the time. And he was the target which happened to present itself." (loc 594)

And just some bonus inner Chamberlain, from within two page turns of his conversations with Kilrain: "This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become. This was the first place on earth where the man mattered more than the state." (loc 619)