One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. - Isaac Asimov

Hasta la oratoria fue suprimida (y a todos los griegos les ha gustado hablar, desde la Antigüedad hasta el presente) pues los espartanos solían hablar muy breve y sucintamente. La misma palabra "lacónico" (de Laconia) ha llegado a significar la cualidad de hablar de manera concisa.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

Devoire shrugged, "About?" He turned the desk chronometer rather ostentatiously so that Altmayer could see its gleaming metal face on which the red, glowing figures stood out sharply. They read 22:31, and even as it was