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World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

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“A temple dancer named Vellayi(meaning fair, white woman) decided to enact an act of defiant resistance to the Islamist commander who was doing this. She seduced him and took him to a top temple tower, and then, as he approached her, she threw him down from the tower, which immediately killed the general. ..she and her community should be given the honour of getting fire for the rites from the sacred ovens from where the food for the Lord was cooked and that Prasad and divine-symbol honours should be given. That promise was made to her, and it was then being followed through generations. One of the towers of Sri Rangam is painted in pure honour of this dancer-girl.”

“This is what it means to protect others. When people are threatened, you step in front of them and you shield them. You take the hits that were meant for them. You get cut, or shot, or stabbed… You get bitten, clawed, or infected. You hope none of those things happen, and you do everything you can to prevent them. Everyone wants to go home at the end of the day, but not everyone gets to, not in our line of work. It sucks – sucks hard – but we knew the job was dangerous when we took it.”