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Updated: June 1, 2025
What they DO doesn't alter the truth of what they say, does it? 'Completely, because if what they say WERE true, then they couldn't help fulfilling it. But they maintain a lie, and so they run amok at last. It's a lie to say that love is the greatest. You might as well say that hate is the greatest, since the opposite of everything balances. What people want is hate hate and nothing but hate.
When he thinks of him at all, which is not often, he conjures up the figure of a wild-eyed, long-haired, blood-smeared, howling and naked savage, armed with what Tennyson calls the 'cursed Malayan crease, who spends all his spare time running âmok.
Considering how punctilious and courteous the Malays are, how rough many of the best of us are, how brutal in manner many of us are, and how inconsiderate our sailors are of the customs of foreign peoples, especially in regard to the seclusion of their women, it is wonderful that bloody revenge is not more common than it is. "Amok" means a furious and reckless onset. When Mr.
He was locked in; and yet something murdered him!" "What do you mean?" said Bristol. "Where were you?" "I was away on an errand, sir. When I returned, the police were knocking the door down. He was locked in!" We passed him, entering the study. It was a museum-like room, lighted by a lamp on the littered table. At first glance it looked as though some wild thing had run amok there.
The army then ran amok, and the entire city was looted. Palaces and other buildings lay open, and silver, gold, and silken garments were seized as booty. They found many horses and mules, and in the houses they found great abundance of every kind of food.
He abolished military marauding and every form of slavery, established courts, missions, and school houses, and waged war, single-handed, against head-hunting and piracy. Head-hunting is to the Dyaks what amok is to the Malays or scalping to the American Indians. It is even more. No Dyak woman would marry a man who could not decorate their home with at least one human head.
Soames had done for him done for him by that act of property that had sent the Buccaneer to run amok that fatal afternoon. 'The poor fellow, he was thinking, 'was so cracked with jealousy, so cracked for his vengeance, that he heard nothing of the omnibus in that infernal fog. Soames had done for him! And this judgment was in George's eyes. "They talk of suicide here," he said at last.
He runs on with bloody kris in his hand, stabbing every one he meets. "Amok! Amok!" then resounds through the streets. Spears, krises, knives, guns and clubs are brought out against him. He rushes madly forward, kills all he can men, women and children and dies, overwhelmed by numbers, amid all the excitement of a battle. Alfred Russel Wallace, in "The Malay Archipelago"
As a matter of fact, âmok are not as common as people suppose, but false ideas on the subject, and more especially concerning the reasons which lead a Malay to run âmok, are not confined to those Europeans who know nothing about the natives of the Peninsula.
And you can see, poor dear, how he's spread himself." Oh, yes, you could see. It was as if he had never had scope before, and now, with no limit to his opportunity, he had simply run amok. It wasn't that the things he had gathered round him in his orgy were not fine things. It was the awful way he'd mixed them, yielding incontinently to each solicitation as it came along.
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