The sorrow never dies; it is merely nacred by time. - Greg Bear

9. “From what we’ve been told, he wasn’t very humble, was he, Mr. Lascal?”
Lascal shook his head. “I don’t know many writers who are.”

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
But wasn’t that true of every creator?
Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?