February 2012
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Express reports Benedict Cumberbatch cast as the Master. →
express.co.uk
No other confirming reports, and no word out of the BBC, Moffat, or Cumberbatch.
If this happens…*headsplosion*
A selection from "The origin of Akodo Kojiro"
There were many villages we visited together. I watched as the old samurai demonstrated a patience that I never suspected any Lion of possessing. The mules were never a bother no matter how stubborn they became. No village man was too lazy or slow to pack their wares that it invoked his temper. Even I found that my barbed words had no effect. My temper had yet to find restraint and I would lash the beasts and threaten villagers with blade.
He would shake his head at my outbursts and then smooth things over with a few whispers or a bottle of saki stashed away somewhere in his saddle bags. Later on the trail he would admonish me with a gentle wash of words.
“They are not men,” he said. “They do not respond to threats as men do.”
Or, “Do not forget that they fear death. You would do well to remember that blades are for killing and poor motivators when it comes to getting backs to lift or legs to move.”
I must have heard that at least once a day after the first week on the trail. There was something about the old samurai’s patience that was infectious because not once did my rage survive those words. Not once did I turn on him despite my old habits from home. The rage that dwelt within the deepest recesses of my soul ebbed away on the road up the mountain.
“I keep thinking about the extraordinary conservatism of the people running the world economy, running the governments of the largest nations of the world. Let’s compare it to ages past: let’s think about the people who fought World War II, let’s think about the ’50s, the giant structures like the United Nations, Bretton Woods, the space program— those people were capable of thinking big. We don’t do that anymore. The instinct of the people now in power is to figure out how to change things as little as possible. The world political culture has turned into this knee-jerk defensive conservatism of trying desperately to maintain things exactly as they are, for as long a period as possible.”
—What We Owe to Each Other – provocative Boston Review interview with David Graeber, “anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street” and author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. (via curiositycounts)
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