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The Last Command (1928). ☆☆☆☆

      "battlefield Fillmore"

being of sound mind · multiply beset
   advantageously placed
stocked with precedents · proveable saws
   comments not allowed
have walked away· from those i could save
   have sidestepped quicksand
for the sake of my shoes · chaperoned pills
   & poverty
to the bridge of unmaking · in the vale of glycerine tears
   package a pittance
witness little · less admit
   be one of the winners left
whose accounts may vary · but fadge consensus
   it was all the fools

Recordings of "Quiet Village".

"Visiting Philadelphia once, Terry Gilliam, the film director and former Python, was out in the city when he suddenly heard the Monty Python theme playing in the street. Is this a joke? he thought for a moment. Do they know that I’m here?

And then he realised that no one was playing the Monty Python theme: they were playing the Liberty Bell March..." —Alexander Fayne via

"Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was mocked in his time as an inkhornist—one who uses far too many loanwords."