Europa

– Where shall I go? What shall I do?

– My dear, I don't give a damn.

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Europe is pointless.

Ruined.

Arrested.

urgent urgent

Safe.

Washington and the Riddle of Peace (1922) by Herbert George Wells;
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell

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Europe is pointless.

...the continent of tolerance...from most Muslims and the police...is a good thing...

Angela Merkel's Speech to the European Parliament (2007);
Steven Erlanger's and Elvire Camus' Article in New York Times (2012)

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Europe is our common future.

Bizim ortak bir gelecek.

Մեր ընդհանուր ապագան.

Наше общее будущее.

Наша агульная будучыня.

Наша заједничка будућност.

E ardhmja jonë e përbashkët.

Gure etorkizun komuna.

Nuestro futuro común.

Το κοινό μας μέλλον.

Il nostro futuro comune.

Berlin Declaration (2007), German presidency of the Council of the European Union;
Google Translate (2012)

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Europe is divided into two parts.

The eastern part is an unbroken lowland, mountains rising only on its eastern and southern edges. The western part has with its plains also the two forms of mountain lands above mentioned. The eastern part is broad, massive, little articulated; or, in other words, it is not made up of connected segments. It suggests North Asia, from which it is projected. The western part is narrow, richly articulated, open everywhere to the influences of the sea. The character of the eastern part is uniformity; that of the western part, diversity.

The great plain of Europe is floored by Cretaceous and Tertiary beds, except in Finland, where Archaean rocks, stretching across from the Scandinavian Peninsula, cover the land.

Separate war. Parallel war.

At the time of the formation of the “Pact of Steel” (6–7 May 1939), Italian General Ugo Cavallero gave German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop a memorandum for the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, from Benito Mussolini, informing him that Germany’s chief ally would not be able to enter a European war at any time before 1942 unless Germany agreed to replace the military supplies that Italy had used in Ethiopia and in the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini wanted to conduct, at a moment of his own choosing, a war parallel to Hitler’s but independent of Hitler’s attempt to consolidate Germany’s position in northern Europe. Italy’s ambitions focused on the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy (2007) by Mark F. Gilbert and K. Robert Nilsson;
The New International Encyclopædia (1905) by Cyrus C. Adams and others

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– Do tell us a fairy tale, ganpa.
– Well, will you be good and quiet if I do?
– Of course we will; we are always good when you are telling us fairy tales.
– Well, here goes. Once upon a time, though it wasn't in my time, and it wasn't in your time, and it wasn't in anybody else's time, there was a...
– But that would be no time at all.
– That's fairy tale time.

After a while the new Pope went upon his travels and came to the town where his father dwelt. And there was a great banquet held. So he forgave his father and took him and his mother to live with him ever afterwards.

When the king heard all this, he hastened to embrace his children, and then went to find his poor wife. He knelt before her and begged her pardon. Then the bird sentenced the nurse to be thrown out of the window, and the king and his wife and children lived together in peace.

When he got to his den the Fox asked each of his limbs, how they had helped him in his flight. He asked his tail what it had done, and it said, "Why, I got caught in the bushes or made your leg stumble; that is all I could do." So, as a punishment, the Fox stuck his tail out of his den, and the hounds saw it and caught hold of it, and dragged the Fox out of his den by it and ate him all up.

And so he never found her in time to save her.

Soon after the king died.

And Albert married one of the neighbouring princesses.

And they all lived happy together ever afterwards.

Can you give me lodging for the night, me and my pea?

– It seems as though the small amount of intellect which still remains active to-day has as its sole task the defending – and excusing of the present.
– Against what accusers?
– Against its own bad conscience.

– Whence cometh this?
– This is from yourselves.

They shall be placed in perpetual light, and in the enjojunent of heavenly delights.

They shall be cast in to be burned, and a wretched couch shall it be.

They shall be served in dishes of gold filled with every variety of grateful food, and supplied with wine of ambrosial flavour.

They shall be cast into a scorching fire to be broiled; they be given to drink of a boiling fountain; they shall have no food but of dry thorns and thistles.

They shall be adorned with bracelets of silver, and their Lord shall give them to drink of a most pure liquor a cup of wine mixed with the water of Zenjebil.

They shall be beaten with maces of iron.

They shall enter into delectable gardens, where the rivers flow, some with water, some with wine, some with milk, and some with clarified honer.

They shall endeavour to get out of hell, because of the anguish of their torments, they shall be dragged back into the same; and their tormentors shall say unto them: "Taste ye the pain of burning."

They shall be found worthy to contem plate and adore the face of the Most High God.

They shall call upon them but they shall not answer.

They shall call upon them but they shall not answer.

Adamastor, Alastor, Amadeus, Auld Ane, Auld Clootie, Auld Hornie, Banshee, Barguest or Bhargeist, Befana, Blackman, Blinkin, Belleus, Bertha Frau or Frau Frecht, Black John, Bloody Bones, Bloody Cap, Blue, Boggart, Bogie, Bogle, Brown Dwarf, Brownie, Brownie Catch, Capelthwaite, Chappie, Cloutie, Cob, Cluri-Caune, Dobie, Duergar, Dunters, Dunnie, Eckhardt, Elberich, Erl King or Konig, Flibberty Gibbet, Flying Dutchman, Frater-eto, Freischutz, Friar Kush, Fost Jack, Gabble Retchets, Gabriel Hounds, Gargantea, Gingerbread Giles, Gloriana, Goldeman, Goodman or Gudeman, Good Neighbour, Good People, Grand Gousier or Gangausier, Grim, Grizell Gridigut, Habetrot, Hardname, Hedley Ko'w, Hellequiiij Hendrie Craig, Herlething, Hob, Hobany, Hobbidi-Dance, Hobberdi - Dance, Hobgoblin, Hodeken, Hop-o*-iny-Thumb, Horner Jack, Hudkin, Hiegon, Jack with the Lantern, Jenny Green teeth, Killmoulis, Knockers, Knop, Knap, Kobold, Lamkin, Lammikin, Levana, Licke, Linkin, Lilith or Leles, Lull, MacKeeler, Man in the Moon, Man of Peace, Morgutte, Master Leonard, Melissa, Morgunte, Mumbo Jambo, News, Nick, Nickle Ben, Nippon, Number Nip, Oberon, Obedient, Old Bendy, Old Bogy, Old Gentleman, Old Harry, Old Man of the Sea, Old Nick, Old Scratch, On Risk, Oschaert, Padfoot, Peek in the Crown, Peg o' Nell, Peg Powler, Peg a Lantern, Phooka, Phynnodoree, Pig Wiggin, Pixie, Powriet, Puck, Pyenocket, Quilp, Redcap, Redman, Robert the Jakis, Robert the Rule, Robert des Bois, Robin Goodfellow, Rosie, Rubeza, Rupert Knight, Sack and Sugar, Saunders the Red Reaver, Scantlie Mab, Shefro, Sib, Silky, Skow, Smack, Smalkin or Smulkin, Spunkie, Swain the old Duergar, The Roaring Lion, Thief of Hell, Tliomas the Feary, Thrumpin Tib, Toticellus, Tocabatto, Troll, Vinegar Tom, Voland Squire, Wag-at-the-Wa', Wait upon Herself, Wap, Wild Huntsman, Will with the Wisp, Winn, Wryneck, Yeth Hounds.

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Europa's Fairy Book (1895) by Joseph Jacobs;

The Hand Book of Folk-Lore (1892) by Laurence Gomme;
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1909) by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Anthony M. Ludovici;
The life of Mohammed; founder of the religion of Islam, and of the empire of the Saracens (1831) by George Bush;
Porky Pig