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It's an allegory for the way the second defenestration of Prague irreparably sundered the medieval feudal order and the crowned heads of Europe, despite their great armies, were powerless to halt the chaos that engulfed them. Duh.
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The rhyme doesn't actually say the king sent any horses or men.
Perhaps the story is about the king recognizing that Humpty was irreparable with his present-day technology comprised of little more than horses and men, because he was a smart king.
This post works really well if you read it in Werner Herzog's voice
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Feb 7, 2018 07:42
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It's an allegory for the way the second defenestration of Prague irreparably sundered the medieval feudal order and the crowned heads of Europe, despite their great armies, were powerless to halt the chaos that engulfed them. Duh.
Humpty Dumpty was written by Brecht to be a song in Mother Courage and her Children, he didn't include it in the final version but the song tookk on a life of its own
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Feb 7, 2018 14:18
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Can you imagine writing something and then later finding out that people had assumed it was about giant eggs even though that was never your intent? Like you crack a copy of your life's work and the characters have all been inexplicably rendered as egg people, you inquire around and the response is always "well you didn't specify they weren't egg people, so..."
this is why John Lennon wrote I Am The Walrus. he wanted to make it explicitly clear that none of his other songs were about egg men, because there is only one. "hey, if there's an egg man in my song i'm going to get in front of it right now and tell you."
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Feb 7, 2018 18:52
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Can you imagine writing something and then later finding out that people had assumed it was about giant eggs even though that was never your intent? Like you crack a copy of your life's work and the characters have all been inexplicably rendered as egg people, you inquire around and the response is always "well you didn't specify they weren't egg people, so..."
Call me Ishmael, and I am a human being by the way, not a sentient talking egg with legs.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:13
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For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? Well, first and foremost, he's not a giant ambulatory ovum, so put that out of your mind right now.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:17
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is dr eggman a middle ground here
like he is shown to be a man who simply looks like an egg rather than literally being an egg but i am not sure if that is part of his secret agenda
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Feb 7, 2018 19:47
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Humphrey DuFuois was an English friar of mixed Anglo-French ancestry who lived in the 1700s. In the middle of his life, he broke radically from the church, claiming to have a revelation about the nature of the universe that conflicted with the standard Judeo-Christo-Islamic monotheism. According to DuFuois, there was no god in the traditional spiritual sense. Akin to certain Asian myths and the modern-era hippie movement, Dufism suggests that humans are "yet to be born," and that human life as we know it is an intermediary stage on a journey to a higher plane of existence—he explicitly describes people as "eggs waiting to hatch." DuFuois was found dead of an apparent suicide in 1780 after falling off one of the ramparts at his monastery. Most of his writings were "lost" according to an official report from an inquiry into his death by the court of King George III—the only surviving documents outlining DuFuois' theology are several pages of handwritten drafts of his manuscript. It is theorized that DuFuois was arranged to be murdered due to the threat he posed to existing orthodoxy, but it is not known whether the malicious agents were Anglican or papal in origin. The story of DuFuois was put to verse by Samuel Arnold in 1797, where the "Humpty Dumpty" character is depicted as an anthropomorphic egg—a subtle parody of DuFuois' beliefs. The word "doofus" also derives from his name.
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Feb 7, 2018 20:46
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Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
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What was going to hatch from him? What kind of life is that?
Can you imagine writing something and then later finding out that people had assumed it was about giant eggs even though that was never your intent? Like you crack a copy of your life's work and the characters have all been inexplicably rendered as egg people, you inquire around and the response is always "well you didn't specify they weren't egg people, so..."
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Feb 7, 2018 21:22
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Soldier #1: So we nicknamed our cannon The Parliamentarian Destroyer 9000. How about you guys?
Soldier #2: ...
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Eggs crack. Crack cocaine. Something about the CIA.
The CIA hatching plots, white cocaine egg chunks, "horses" for sweet Golden Triangle heroin, the "wall" being the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain the difficulty of getting drugs in to undermine the Warsaw Pact, all the "king's men" being the American political and governmental figures looking the other way or benefiting from CIA plans...
It all makes a sick sense, man.
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When all you have is horsemen, everything looks like a pitched battle.
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Soldier #1: So we nicknamed our cannon The Parliamentarian Destroyer 9000. How about you guys?
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Feb 8, 2018 16:36
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"When the game is over, the eggs and the pawns go back to the same box." - old Italian proverb (my yearbook senior quote)
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Very true. I propose the following change:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
In case it was ambiguous,
Humpty Dumpty was a sentient egg person,
Like a human sized chicken egg with a giant face on it.
Can you imagine writing something and then later finding out that people had assumed it was about giant eggs even though that was never your intent? Like you crack a copy of your life's work and the characters have all been inexplicably rendered as egg people, you inquire around and the response is always "well you didn't specify they weren't egg people, so..."
Call me Ishmael, and I am a human being by the way, not a sentient talking egg with legs.
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? Well, first and foremost, he's not a giant ambulatory ovum, so put that out of your mind right now.
Humphrey DuFuois was an English friar of mixed Anglo-French ancestry who lived in the 1700s. In the middle of his life, he broke radically from the church, claiming to have a revelation about the nature of the universe that conflicted with the standard Judeo-Christo-Islamic monotheism. According to DuFuois, there was no god in the traditional spiritual sense. Akin to certain Asian myths and the modern-era hippie movement, Dufism suggests that humans are "yet to be born," and that human life as we know it is an intermediary stage on a journey to a higher plane of existence—he explicitly describes people as "eggs waiting to hatch." DuFuois was found dead of an apparent suicide in 1780 after falling off one of the ramparts at his monastery. Most of his writings were "lost" according to an official report from an inquiry into his death by the court of King George III—the only surviving documents outlining DuFuois' theology are several pages of handwritten drafts of his manuscript. It is theorized that DuFuois was arranged to be murdered due to the threat he posed to existing orthodoxy, but it is not known whether the malicious agents were Anglican or papal in origin. The story of DuFuois was put to verse by Samuel Arnold in 1797, where the "Humpty Dumpty" character is depicted as an anthropomorphic egg—a subtle parody of DuFuois' beliefs. The word "doofus" also derives from his name.
im dying of joy
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Feb 12, 2018 12:17
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Horses are well known for their skill with eggs.
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If there was a sentient egg man and he was popular enough in the community that people knew him by name then I bet people would get pretty upset by his brutal fall induced death. Like imagine an egg cracking, but somehow it is a living thing with thoughts and a face. It's a horrific way to go. That would probably be pretty traumatic for the simple village folk, troubled as the common folk are by sympathy for others.
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Feb 14, 2018 16:23
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A wise king knows to take advantage of such situations even if they are hopeless. Give the illusion of caring about the common folk's petty concerns. Send in the army so as to associate it with trying to help people. Stall until people have calmed down and moved on. Then, use your superior powers of imagination to provide them with a comforting lie. Like that you had your holy advisor contact the spirits to convince them to reincarnate the egg beast as a less fragile form of sentient food, or grant him safe passage to an afterlife more accommodating of his fragile egg nature.
Next time people get upset about the king taxing them into starvation he can remind them of all he did for poor humpty.
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Is it ethical to fry and eat the innards of an egg-man who died in a fall, or is it more like cannibalism because of the sentience?
Asking for a friend.
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Is it ethical to fry and eat the innards of an egg-man who died in a fall, or is it more like cannibalism because of the sentience?
Asking for a friend.
Eat your friend.
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Sentient eggman sits on a wall and some people slide a big bowl up to the bottom and humptys like uhh what are you doing and they're like umm nothing???
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