Status Updates From A Canticle for Leibowitz

"You would call it the burden of being chosen. I would call it the burden of Original Guilt. In either case, the implied responsibility is the same, although we might tell different versions of it, and disagree violently in words about what we mean in words by something that isn't really meant in words at all - since it's something that's meant in the dead silence of a heart."

Off to a good start.