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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Duanes Jones and Marlene Clark in bed from the movie Ganja & Hess. He has striped pyjama bottoms on and is topless. She has a blue night gown on. They are looking at each other. They are both Vampires but not Dracula.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

A black and white cat laying sleeping upon a large green plush blanket.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

With my fav villain AND my fav villainous ending!

The text of the last words Aaron, from the Shakespeare play "Titus Adronicus"

O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Then thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my like I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones. He wore many hats and rocked them all, but the general style suited him best I think.

A black and white picture of Lee Van Cleef eating soup with a wooden spoon from the movie The Good The Bad and The Ugly. He is wearing a black broad and flat rimmed hat.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Everyone should have one lovable gentle doofus in their life.

A close up picture of a black and white cat laying on blankets looking at the camera with his tongue sticking out.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Next #vinyl spin a bit different. Time to get a little (not a lot) psychedelic.

The cover of the vinyl album “Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus” by the band Spirit. Cover is with the band and album name centred up top in relatively small lettering with a picture or illustration of five men in strangely colourful costumes and makeup. The image is wavy and distorted as if through water, bad glass, or a dream.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Second #vinyl spin of the day. One of those albums I was overjoyed to come across in a record store cause I thought I’d probably never find it.

The cover of the vinyl album of Temple of the Dog’s self titled album. The cover has the band name in 3d looking lettering in purple across the top (Temple) and bottom (of the dog) thirds with a slow exposure photo in black and (almost glowing) white of the bands bodies performing on stage.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Last three albums of the road trip. Not sure I like other Russell albums, but Carney is really good and shows his unique voice. Lunatic Soul is cool ambeint prog rock stuff from '08. Temple of the Dog! Found this at my first stop and I'm elated! The album I always looked for 1st in any store. #vinyl

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Little Steven Album was seven bucks and at that price dang right I'd jump on it. The New York Dolls album falls in the category of "I'd own it eventually so why not now" and hey - The Weather Report will always be good. #vinyl

The cover of the Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul album "Men Without Women". Cover shows a photo of Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) wearing one of his trademark bandanas, a blank tank top and a leather jacket half on staring straight into the camera I guess trying to look tough?

The cover of the self-titled album by the New York Dolls. The Band's name is written in pink lipstick, the lipstick itself seen on the cover and the rest of the cover is a black and white photo of the band members in their usual drag looks.

The cover of the Weather Report album "Heavy Weather". The cover is an elaborate illustration of hat above a city with lightning come from below the hat towards the city and smoke coming out it's top.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So - took the day off work for a Road Trip to get gluten free fish and chips (also poutine, mushroom caps and mozza sticks) and hit some record stores. Came away with 9 new albums. 8 I bought, one, the ZZ Top album gifted by my road trip buddy. #vinyl

The cover of the Nina Simone Album "To Love Somebody". Cover shows and illustration of a couple sitting on a couch holding hands inset in an illustration of a landscape.

The cover of the XTC album "drums and wires". The album shows a stylized illustration of a face formed of large shapes of colors looking at the viewer. The bands name is used to create the eyebrows, nose and one of the eyes of the face.

The cover of the ZZ Top album "Eliminator". The cover shows and illustration of an old red car with a large grill driving straight towards the viewer with it's headlights on.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Been on a shorgaze kick this week. I love this Slowdive album so I went looking to see if it was at my local store. It was! But while randomly flipping through other records I came across this “Record Store Day Essential” release of Bill Withers live and I had to buy it too. New #vinyl #nowspinning

The cover of the vinyl Album “Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall”. Cover shows Withers and his band playing on stage with six closeup boxes across the top of Withers playing guitar or piano.

The cover of the vinyl album “Souvlaki” by Slowdive. Cover shows a close up and angled picture of the five members of the band, showing mostly their faces.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Sword of Doom (1966). Directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Cinematography by Hiroshi Murai.

A misty or foggy forest in black and white. A samurai is centred in the background walking away and backlit, holding a drawn sword at his side. Man dead men with swords are laying on the ground to the sides of the path the samurai has walked.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Most important though: proof of concept established. With how good these were for a first ever try Decent enough Gluten Free Dumplings might be in my life and I’m pretty freaking stoked about that.

Ten homemade gluten free circular dumpling wrappers on a pastry mat.

Ten filled half-moon mandu - Korean dumplings on a pastry mat waiting for cooking.

Ten cooked fried mandu (Korean dumplings) on a plate next to a small dish of dipping sauce.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Had preordered this some months back and got it last week but the truth is John Cusack sold it to me 25 years ago and it just took a long time to get it here. Lol. #vinyl

The cover of the vinyl album “The Three E.P.’s” by The Beta Band. Shows a winter landscape with a dog looking at the camera in black and white across the top are three stylized illustration in colour. A roaring tiger face a bomb exploding and a six pointed star.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

And one last fav movie dad, an under the radar one: Bruce Willis from Unbreakable. Things are real complicated in this one but as a portrait of a dad who maybe doesn't feel like he knows how to connect to his kid but is trying it's another really honest and sweet portrayal of a father son dynamic.

Bruce Willis and a young Spencer Treat Clark as David and Joseph Dunn looking at a weight lifting bench in awe.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Here's another fav movie dad. Jefferson Morales ain't perfect, but he loves his kid and tries his best wants to understand and help him.

A picture of Jefferson Morales, the father of Miles Morales, from the animated SpiderVerse movies. In his police uniform and car, looking out the window.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Oh one of my favs right here. I *adore* US and on my first watch a big big reason was Winston Duke's dad energy and vibes in it. I just loved how real he felt.

Winston Duke as Gabe Wilson from the movie US. Holding a baseball bat, wearing a Howard University shirt and trying to look tough.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I’ve only read section one so far but these are all incredible.

$A part of the table of contents for Like a Hammer: Poets in Mass Incarceration It lists section one which is titled: Time Rules This Empire: Where Clocks Stand Still. The poems listed are: Randall Horton’s “:.Or. This Malus Thing Never to Be Confused with Justice”. Hanif Abdurragib’s “All the TV Shows Are about Cops”. Sin à Tes Souhaits’ “TRAP noun. \’trap\”. Rhionna Anderson’s “Marriage”. Christopher Malec’s “Which Is It?. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal’s “Architect 1”. Reginald Dwayne Betts’ “Blood History”. Sandra Jackson’s “Lost”. Natalie Diaz’s “Under Correction I”. Christina Pernini’s “Behind the Wall”.$

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Definitely can’t wait till I can afford a Haymarket Books subscription again as it’s how I get brilliant things like this amazing collection of poetry.

A pictue of the cover of “Like a Hammer Poets on Mass Incarceration”. Edited by Diana Marie Delgado. Forward by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The design uses large block font for the title with the first half in red and the second in black. The editor and forward credits are in small black script in spaces between the blocks of letters.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Mark Colley is doing the best with what he's got to work with.

A screenshot from the Toronto Star titled "What we know:" saying "White smoke has been seen billowing from Sistine Chapel chimney." (It says nothing else.)

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I don't know if this falls under "incredibly important news update" or "what the hell are we even doing here" so I leave you all to decide for yourselves.

A screen shot from the Toronto Star's live update stream of reporting on the new pope. In red it says "updated 2 mins ago" at the top. The headline is "Seagulls laned [sic] near chimney just before white smoke began billowing out. It's noted as "by Mark Colley Staff Reporter". There is a picture of a seagul on a roof by a metal chimney on a monitor of some kind. The update states "Minutes before the white smoke started billowing out, a family of seagulls -- including a baby seagull -- landed on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. When the smoke appeared, they moved away but remained on the roof, seemingly unbothered by the momentous decision taking place directly under their feet.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#nowspinning some Tom Waits tunes to accompany chores. Usually more of a late-night album for me, but it’ll work! #vinyl

The cover of the Tom Waits compilation album “Asylum Years”. Cover is a 1976 painting by John Baeder of the exterior of New York’s Empire Diner showing off its art deco exterior.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

So my kid told me, in reference to the new Oblivion Remaster, “Well it is a just released Bethesda game, so you might just fall through a hole in the world or something.” And he was right!

A screen shot of Oblvion Remastered where my character has fallen through the world and is now in “water” staring up at distorted cave, it’s various pieces visible as slices and parts from underneath.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Shed-Monster in his happy place. (So much hair, everywhere, right now. This is our first spring with him.)

A black and white cat laying comfortably on a red plush blanket, sleeping with his purple Kong toy hidden under him, its end tucked next to his head like a stuffie or pillow.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Now spinning my newest #vinyl #jazz album - and probably the most polarizing album I own. It is probably either something approaching transcendent or the worst example of “thats not music its just screeching noise” depending on your point of view. I love it. Haunts me. #jazzsky.

The vinyl cover for the Albert Ayler Trio’s album “Spiritual Unity”. Group name at top and album at bottom in a thin red font that looks hand done. Angled across the middle between them is a stylized image/illustration that looks like a highly overexposed black and white photo of a man playing a saxophone.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Been watching The Man With No Name trilogy this week and no one does, “I’m just going to stare at you and you’re going to be terrified” like Lee Van Cleef did.

Lee Van Clef as “Angel Eyes” from ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” staring intensely.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A while back I bought a friend and I copies of the Dao De Jing. Once he was having a bad day and I rattled off something that aped the form to try and lift his spirits. We laughed, and sometimes he'll seek more. Yesterday he felt terrible for blowing a test and steam-of-thought I sent this to him.

A picture of simple text that reads:

Never making mistakes is to grow like the tree meticulously farmed for lumber. Straight perfect and uninteresting. Remarked upon by no one, remembered by less.

The painter chooses the tree with the knots, whorls and cricks. For only it is worth painting. The carpenter chooses the straight unblemished tree. It is felled, its life is short.

The wise is as the tree that catches the painters eye, not the carpenters. For only it has a story to tell.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So apparently next month I get to go and maybe be selected for Jury Duty, and, looking up some info - this is messed up, yeah? Like - how many average-paid-by-the-hour people can afford to lose 10 days pay?

Text for a screenshot from a government of Ontario website about Jury Duty:

Payment and time off work

Employers are required by law to give employees time off for jury duty and for people selected to serve as a juror. The law does not require employers to pay an employee’s salary during this time.

Jurors receive the following payment for serving on a jury:

Day one to ten: No fee.
Day 11 to 49: $40 per day.
Day 50 to the last day of trial: $100 per day. Trials of this length are rare.

If you’re serving as a juror and the trial lasts longer than 10 days, the court where the trial is taking place will arrange payment.

There is no allowance for childcare expenses or parking.

If you are on Employment Insurance benefits (E.I.), you can attend jury duty and continue to receive benefits.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It doesn’t look special, but I just made this carbonara (gluten free noodles) with duck egg yolks, kielbasa and ragusano stagionato (a cheese I’m trying for the first time ever) and I’m feeling fancy as fuck.

A picture if the carbonara described in the post still in the pot and it’s creamy sauce.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Had some good things to celebrate today week, so I treated myself to some new #vinyl which I’m #nowspinning a couple classics and a Gaslight Anthem album that I’m almost embarrassed by what I paid for it, but which I couldn’t pass up - it being an absolute favourite and unlikely to be easy to find.

The cover of the album “I’m You Man” by Leonard Cohen. Cover is black on the top half with Leonard Cohen in white lettering and grey in the bottom with a small balck and white picture of Cohen in shades eating a banana.

The cover of the album “Closing Time” by Tom Waits. The album cover is black with a young Waits partly illuminated leaning against a piano looking tired a glass of probably alcohol sits beside an ashtray of cigarettes above the keys.

The cover of the album “Handwritten” by The Gaslight Anthem. The top of the cover is purple with the band name in white and album in yellow lettered there. Under that it says “Brian Fallon/Alex Levine/Benny Horrowitz/Alex Rosamilia” the rest if the cover is four close up photos of each band member playing their instrument.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The fierce vampire cat wishing for more belly rubs and chin scratches.

A black and white cat laying on his back with his paws up on a red plush blanket looking at the camera. His “fangs” are slightly visible in his slightly open mouth.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Last night, brisket I BBQ’d all day. Tonight: brisket warmed up in au jus sandwiches with caramelized onions and mushrooms, swiss cheese and a little bit of good mayo blended with honey dijon mustard.

A brisket that had been smoked all day on a couple of cutting boards ready to have some sliced up.

A plate with pieces of brisket, some coleslaw and some corn bread.

Some slices of brisket warming in a little au jus in a cast iron pan. Some blue metal and silicon tongs are in resting in the pan too.

A sandwhich of toasted gluten free multigrain bread, brisket, swiss cheese, caramelized mushrooms and onions and a little blend of mayo and honey dijon mustard. Sandwhich is cut in half to show its contents (and because its way too messy to try and eat the whole thing as one piece).

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The U.S. government is arguing that because they say, with no proof, that people are a member of a gang they have designated a terrorist organization the fact they have no proof of their doing any crimes means they are even more dangerous than if they did.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Trying to get a picture of the lovely halo around the moon tonight on the iphone. It’s exposure time transformed it into a star.

A picture of the moon in the night sky, it appears to look almost like a bright star instead of the moon due to the night time exposure and has a large halo around it.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Recently availed myself of the “bent corners sale” from Get On Down and these fun gifts to myself arrived at least a week earlier than I expected.

The cover for the Vinyl Album “High Jazz” by Madlib. The cover is black with MADLIB in blue in the top right corner, high in large white across most of the cover and JAZZ in orange in the bottom right.

The cover of the album “Layers” Les McCan. The cover shows what looks like a blurry picture photo of spinning black record with a red center circle and streaks in it.

The vinyl cover of the album “Every Hero Needs a Villain” by CZARFACE. The album is drawn like a comic book cover showjng the character Czarface in silver metal body armor and a red cape with glowing red eyes against a background of planets and green glow.

The cover of the vinyl album “The History of the Loop Digger” by Madlib. The cover shows a colour illustration if a shirtless Black man wearing jean on a motorcycle holding a gun violently fighting police officers.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Boy I just love the time of year where you can have both of these coming at you at the same time.

Two warnings from a weather app with a red background to denote its a strong warning. The first says “Winter Storm Warning” and the second says “Rainfall Warning”

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Time to get kinda funky with some music, though not in the sense of “funk” itself, lol. Time for some Dr. John. #nowspinning

The cover of the vinyl album “Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Singles 1968 to 1974”. Cover shows a blurry picture of Dr. John in colourful outfit, I think with feathers, in yellows and reds.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And the final product. I’ve never made this before, which made posting making it perhaps a bit “risky” in case of disaster, lol. But it’s good!

The final product! “Spinach with Fresh Indian Cheese” / Saag Paneer. The cheese is softer but still noticeably white, though covered to various degrees in the spinach sauce.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Had to stop posting but further steps: adding those spices, the spinach and tomatoes mix (look how green!) and the paneer.

Cooking onions, garlic and ginger mixing with a blend of spices giving it an reddish-orange colour.

Bright green blended mixed of spinach, tomatoes, chilli added to the spices and onions. In this photo it is not mixed yet so the bright green, reddish browns (and the black of the pan and silver of the spatula) are all visible.

The bright white cubes if paneer (Indian cheese) is added to the green (now darker green) blend of previous ingredients.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Onions are best slow anyway. Not shown here but just added the garlic and ginger and it smells like heaven.

Nearly translucent onions cooking in oil in a cast iron pan.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I read once the the secret to cooking with a cast iron pan is to always use *much* lower heat than you think you need or is called for compared to other pans and it is the best tip possible. (I use my pan daily for like, 80% of my cooking)

White onions frying in a little oil in a cast iron pan. A metal spatula is in the pan set leaning on its edge.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I love breaking out the pretty spices.

A small see through glass dish containing a several teaspoons of spices on top of one another but not mixed yet. Including a yellow-orange tumeric and bright red chili powder.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

#nowspinning this recent acquisition and loving it but also, as always, being more than a little sad at all the potential music the world lost because of one bad decision one night in May in ‘97. Every song he touched was just so fucking perfect and beautiful.

The cover of the posthumous compilation album of early Jeff Buckley recordings “You and I”. The album cover has his name and the title in a hand-written style font across a frame of photograph film of a picture of Jeff Buckley.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’ve been doing a watch of the original Trek for the first time ever and just came across one of the truest and most profound things ever written into it. After Spock feels the deaths of a Vulcan ship in a nearby system

A screenshot of a transcript from an episode of Star Trek:
MCCOY: But four hundred Vulcans?
SPOCK: I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
MCCOY: Suffer the death of thy neighbour, eh, Spock? You wouldn't wish that on us, would you?
SPOCK: It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody.

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