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[–] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Is this your mum?

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I been procrastinating this translation for a while but now warhammer and poetry are in the same context, I simply have to.

    (In case you wanna listen to it)

    I want to be mechanized.

    vroom, vroom, vroom!
    clank clank clank!

    I want to be mechanized.
    This [feeling] comes from my brain, from my flesh, from my bones.
    I go mad to get my hands on every dynamo.
    My saliva-covered tongue is licking copper wires.
    The auto-draisine in my veins is chasing down locomotives.

    vroom,
    vroom!

    clank clank clank!

    I want to be mechanized.
    Certainly I will find a solution to this.
    And then I will be content only
    the day I mount a turbine in my abdomen, and
    append a double-propulsor on my tailplane!

    vroom vroom
    clank clank clank!

    I want to be mechanized!

    - Nazim Hikmet, 1923. Makinalaşmak İstiyorum.

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