Personal beliefs are unarguable, even if the other side has all the facts. - Sheri S. Tepper

An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.

No matter who I ask, they answer out of the Dicta! Even when it doesn't fit."
"Doing such is not a new thing. In the former world, there were people who said all truth was contained in this or that holy book, this or that holy image, these or those holy beliefs. No matter how complicated their world became, no matter how much it changed, the only answers permitted were those that grew ever more tortuous and convoluted."
"Until?"
"Until, some say, God turned his back on them for their failure to use the minds they had been given.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.