Should tear down Arkham Asylum
Jun. 20th, 2010 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It is engraved on the wall:
Non Compos Mentis
actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea
Mors Certa, Hora Incerta
Liberate me ex Infernis
and most ominously
Homo Homini Lupus
Arkham Asylum is an awful awful place.
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Non Compos Mentis
actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea
Mors Certa, Hora Incerta
Liberate me ex Infernis
and most ominously
Homo Homini Lupus
Arkham Asylum is an awful awful place.
This message brought to you by the game: Arkham Asylum!
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on 2010-06-20 04:17 pm (UTC)Death certain, time uncertain... (?)
Free me from hell... (or something...)
I remember so little of Latin it's sad.
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on 2010-06-20 10:00 pm (UTC)The deed does not make one guilty unless the mind is guilty.
Death is certain, the hour is uncertain.
Free me from hell.
Man is a wolf to other men.
I had to look up a couple of them, but I'd heard "homo hominis lupus" before and so knew the translation immediately.
I do not remember as much of Latin as I wish I did. :(