Welcome to Twelve Men
And then twelve of the bravest Geats
Rode their horses around the tower,
Telling their sorrow, telling stories
Of their dead king and his greatness, his glory.
-Beowulf, Burton Raffel translation
The first crewed lunar landing in 1969 was
a historic triumph for the USA and humankind.
Including the Apollo 11 mission, 12 men have walked on the Moon.
-rmg.co.uk
One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray,
and he prayed to God all night.
At daybreak he called together all of his disciples
and chose twelve of them to be apostles.
-Some old ass book idk, Luke 6:12-16
Dreiser’s embracing compassion is felt in Twelve Men (1919),
a collection of portraits of men he knew and admired.
[..] Without sentiment but with honest emotion
and respect for the bleak and unvarnished truth,
Dreiser recalls these anomalous individuals
and the twists of fate that shaped their lives.
-Richard Lehan
A corpse is meat gone bad.
Well and what's cheese?
Corpse of milk.
-James Joyce
Harry Potter fans DNI
-Twelve Men
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