Victorian era take down the fuckboy speech
Tag: penny dreadful
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True evil is, above all things, seductive. When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn’t have cloven hooves. He is beautiful, and offers you your heart’s desire in whispered airs. Like a siren, beckoning you to ruinous shore.
Do you know what this room holds? The old Romans called them Memento Mori. Tokens of death. The story goes that a famous general was returning from battle, his chariot piled high with the golden spoils of his victory. He thrust out his chest to proclaim his invincibility to the people. Well, a slave saw this and threw an old bone at the general’s feet, saying, “Remember, death comes for us all.” And from that day, it became a custom in Rome that a slave stand in the chariot behind every general returning in victory, holding a skull and whispering into his ear. “Look behind you. Remember that you are a man. Remember that you will die.”