The Outsider Appendix (Part II)

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II. BRING THE PAIN

75. This happens more than I thought.

91. Cf. The Mabignogion, Owein.

96. Cf. The Iliad, VIII.

101. Cf. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller.

105. Cf. “New York Minute,” Don Henley.

124. From one of Aesop’s lesser-known fables. One’s bag of faults in front is typically smaller than that one carries in back.

133. Admiral Yamamoto after losing nearly all his carriers at Midway.

139. Cf. “In Flanders Field,” John McCrae.

161. The tenth avatar of Vishnu, who at the end of the Kaliyuga, will appear in person on a white horse named Kalki.

170. Cf. Richard III.

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