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Despite his health vulnerabilities, | Despite his health vulnerabilities, | ||
- | While working as a stewman in an ether factory, Kier met a swab girl named [[Imogene]] whom he would later married.((Season 1, Episode 5, "[[The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design]]" | + | While working as a stewman in an ether factory, Kier met a swab girl named [[imogene_eagan]] whom he later married.((Season 1, Episode 5, "[[The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design]]" |
- | Kier served as a military doctor in his early 20s, presumably during the American Civil War, although the extent and nature of his deployment is unknown. It is believed that Kier witnessing the agony and suffering of wounded soldiers provided his initial impetus for Lumon. In 1865, Kier founded Lumon Industries and thus began his preternatural 74-year tenure as the company' | + | Kier served as a military doctor in his early 20s,((As mentioned in Natalie’s speech at the gala, per the [[the_we_we_are# |
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===== Quotes & Dialogue ===== | ===== Quotes & Dialogue ===== | ||
- | >The light of discovery | + | >The light of discovery |
>Be ever merry. | >Be ever merry. | ||
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>The surest way to tame a person is to let him believe he’s free. | >The surest way to tame a person is to let him believe he’s free. | ||
- | > Tame thy tempers. | + | >Tame thy tempers. |
>Let not weakness live in your veins. | >Let not weakness live in your veins. | ||
- | >You must be cut to heal. | + | >We must be cut to heal. |
>The remembered man does not decay. | >The remembered man does not decay. | ||
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+ | >Tame in me the tempers four that I may serve thee evermore. Place in me the values nine that I may feel thy touch divine. | ||
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+ | >Render not my creation in miniature. | ||
>Be content in my words and dally not in the scholastic pursuits of lesser men. | >Be content in my words and dally not in the scholastic pursuits of lesser men. | ||
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>And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages, in your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am 10 centuries demised. | >And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages, in your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am 10 centuries demised. | ||
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- | >In my life, I have identified four components, which I call // | ||
>I dug inside of soldiers and within them, found the war. | >I dug inside of soldiers and within them, found the war. | ||
>I know that death is near upon me, because people have begun to ask what I see as my life’s great achievement. They wish to know how they should remember me as I rot. In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children. | >I know that death is near upon me, because people have begun to ask what I see as my life’s great achievement. They wish to know how they should remember me as I rot. In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children. | ||
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+ | >Come now, children of my industry, and know the children of my blood. <WRAP attribution> | ||
===== Appearances ===== | ===== Appearances ===== | ||