i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on

Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?

(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks

Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).

Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.

Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm

> And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!

[0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950.

[1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...

[0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice?

> > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak

[1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s

EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.