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Wow, ‘The Cretan Bull’ just might be my favorite story so far.

“It’s not a man’s working hours that are important—it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.”

He fights past the point of death, fueling his body with stubborn anger when organs and blood and air are no longer enough.
When he falls, it’s with an apology on his lips.

Entering the endgame now.

“I have nothing to establish except the clothing I’m wearing.”
“You own nothing?”
“ They keep my salary in account somewhere on earth. I’ve never needed it. Except to buy civilian clothes on my - vacation.”
(Odd, never thought about how a space militant would never need or use his own pay.)

“In the moment, when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment, I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment, when I love them-“
“You beat them.”
“No, you don’t understand. I destroy them.”

“ I didn’t want to see you.”
“They told me.”
“I was afraid I’d still love you.”
“I hoped that you would.”
“My fear, your wish - both granted.”

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

And so this was a holy battle where fate was the weapon, the prize and the battleground.