help me remember a short story
March 28, 2020 10:55 PM Subscribe
I remember reading a story in high school lit class where a male character must do something dangerous and heroic to save his own, and perhaps other lives. As he takes on this challenge he repeats to himself a little mantra: nerve, nerve, nerve!
It has always stuck with me, and back in 2001 I brought it out as a rallying cry and thought it was from Leiningen Versus the Ants but a quick scan of tha tells me I'm mistaken. So what story did I read that had that mantra? I'm pretty sure I did not imagine this.
It has always stuck with me, and back in 2001 I brought it out as a rallying cry and thought it was from Leiningen Versus the Ants but a quick scan of tha tells me I'm mistaken. So what story did I read that had that mantra? I'm pretty sure I did not imagine this.
Response by poster: Nailed it on the first, cgs06!
"Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed along.
posted by vrakatar at 11:11 PM on March 28, 2020
"Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed along.
posted by vrakatar at 11:11 PM on March 28, 2020
An echo of Georges Danton: 'l'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!'
posted by verstegan at 7:08 AM on March 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by verstegan at 7:08 AM on March 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
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