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Invictus
01.30.2010     12h45

We saw the movie "Invictus" last week and I absolutely loved it. I've been a huge fan of Nelson Mandela since I read his autobiography for my high school International Relations class (thanks Mr Waisgerber!). I didn't know about the 1995 Rugby World Cup, though, so the movie was entertaining AND informative.

I loved the poem, "Invictus", when i heard it read out loud in the film. It's somewhat appropriate to some of the stuff that I've been dealing with this past week, so I wanted to share with the rest of you:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley


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I'm a 28-year-old American who has been living in France since September of 2003. I became a naturalized French citizen on April 21, 2009.

I teach English at one of the universities in Clermont-Ferrand, and I'm doing a doctorate in American civilization and history at the Université Lumière Lyon II in Lyon, France.

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