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lumineauxAndreas Katsulas, the actor best known to geekdom as G'Kar on Babylon 5, died of lung cancer on Monday. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=34628
In his honor, I repeat one of his best speeches from B5 (yeah, JMS wrote the words, but Andreas Katsulas made them sing):
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
G'Kar, The Long, Twilight Struggle
And because, well, you can never have enough G'Kar:
"Do not thump the book of G'Quon. It is disrespectful."
G'Kar, Ship of Tears
"G'Quon wrote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always paved in pain."
G'Kar, Z'ha'dum
In his honor, I repeat one of his best speeches from B5 (yeah, JMS wrote the words, but Andreas Katsulas made them sing):
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
G'Kar, The Long, Twilight Struggle
And because, well, you can never have enough G'Kar:
"Do not thump the book of G'Quon. It is disrespectful."
G'Kar, Ship of Tears
"G'Quon wrote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always paved in pain."
G'Kar, Z'ha'dum
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Date: 2006-02-16 12:37 am (UTC)Great stuff.