In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don’t have books written about them have it easier.
The body must not be violated. This is the greatest truth of the universe.
The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.
For what it’s worth, the sociocultural rituals of your society seem to be in conflict with biological reality.
His conviction is a compulsion not subject to self-preservation.
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