#thelongdefeat

[befanini]

Shadowfax by TheLongDefeat

[omnipotentchaos]

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[champing-at-the-bit]

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For all I know we’ll never see sun But together we’ll fight the long defeat. #thrice #thelongdefeat #tobeeverywhereistobenowhere (at The Fillmore Silver Spring)

[thenerdforhire]

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Probably my favorite song off of the new album, To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere, by @thrice. So glad I got to hear "The Long Defeat" live and in person. #Thrice #tbeitbn #tobeeverywhereistobenowhere #thelongdefeat (at House of Blues Chicago)

[aliciee]

“I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I’m not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don’t dislike victory ... You know, people from our background — like you, like most Partners In Health [PIH]-ers, like me — we’re used to being on a victory team, and actually what we’re really trying to do in PIH is to make common cause with the losers. Those are two very different things. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it’s not worth it. So you fight the long defeat.”

Paul Farmer on "the long defeat" in Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

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The long defeat is what anyone with a conscious is fighting. It is a painfully but beautifully self-aware life. It is Tolkein telling us all, "just keep trying." 

see also: http://www.theamericanscene.com/2008/10/13/the-long-defeat