I'll be goddamned:
"None of the victims, in any place I know of, have resisted; all have submitted to death with a sort of calm...Never in the world had one seen this species of agreement between the assassins and the assassinated."*
Maybe the world "had" never seen the like in 1781 but the world has seen one since, in Beijing, China, circa 1966.
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*The citation to this is labyrinthine: A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, Penguin Classics, Richard Maxwell, editor, chapter 14 endnote 5, p.488; citing to Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Tableau de Paris (1781); in Le Nouveau Paris, Jean Claude Bonnet editor, ch. 53, p.252.
"None of the victims, in any place I know of, have resisted; all have submitted to death with a sort of calm...Never in the world had one seen this species of agreement between the assassins and the assassinated."*
Maybe the world "had" never seen the like in 1781 but the world has seen one since, in Beijing, China, circa 1966.
Tumbrils of China
*The citation to this is labyrinthine: A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, Penguin Classics, Richard Maxwell, editor, chapter 14 endnote 5, p.488; citing to Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Tableau de Paris (1781); in Le Nouveau Paris, Jean Claude Bonnet editor, ch. 53, p.252.
