“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” Lewis Carroll "Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin— spiritual advisor to the Romanovs. In 1916, at a dinner in his honor, he was poisoned, shot stabbed, clubbed, drowned, and castrated." Hellboy, 2003 "A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power." W. B. Yeats
