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Apparently this is from a Twilight Zone episode?

The image is a black and white sequence of four panels featuring a conversation between two characters. The first panel shows a shadowy figure in a suit, gesturing with his hands, with text that reads, "The organization needs a martyr. How do you find a martyr?" The second panel continues with the same figure, now with clenched fists, and the text, "You do not find one, Mr. Vollmer. You choose one." The third panel shows the same figure, with the text, "You take one of no value, and you make him into a symbol. You wrap him in a flag, and you make his death work for you." The fourth panel features a different character, with the text, "Find a man who is of no value while he's alive but who can serve you when he's dead." The background is simple, with a plain wall and a chair visible in the first three panels, while the fourth panel shows a blurred background.

#martyr

#martyr
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"Portrait of a bush-league Fรผhrer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner, a strange intersection in a shadowland called the Twilight Zone."

Rod Serling could turn a goddamn phrase.

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