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Justice, like lightning, shall ever appear
To some men hope, and to other men fear!
•Tony Isabella, Black Lightning #1 (1977).

For such is the fate of great truths, that their duration is only as a flash of lightning in the long and dark night of error. The happy time is not yet arrived, when truth, as falsehood has been hitherto, shall be the portion of the greatest number.
•Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764).

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(The story so far: Colin Lang grows a beard and continues to plan something mysterious and horrible; Bernie Feldman knows only that he has some part to play in it on April 10; also, he has always hated Alan Jancewicz.)

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Delia Jancewicz frogmarched Alan, her only son, to the car. He would be upset if they were late, even by a minute, but he also refused to hurry. He took his time tying his shoes; ...

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It may be replied that some meddlesome human writers, notably Boethius, have let this secret out.
•C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1941).

O Fortuna,
like the moon
you are changeable,
always waxing
or waning;
now this abominable life
oppresses
and then it soothes
by capricious whim;
it melts poverty
and power
like ice.
•Carmina Burana (C 13).

For every climat hath the diel
After the tornynge of the whiel
Which blinde fortune overthroweth;
Whereof the certain noman knoweth....

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(The story so far: Colin Lang has acquired a tricked-out, unregistered rifle. Officer John Oberman and the rest of the police have no idea what he’s up to. CW: Hate crimes, antisemitism, constant looming threat of violence.)

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Officer John Oberman crouched behind the vehicle in the synagogue parking lot and watched the three boys and wondered: How much of a swastika did he have to let them paint?...

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Even though the gods themselves willed it no such good fortune could befall me.
•Homer, Odyssey.

—I don’t mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father’s house?
—To seek misfortune, was Stephen’s answer.
•Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

I soon came to a resolution of making this launch into the wide world, by repairing to London, in order to seek my fortune, a phrase which, by the bye, has ruined more adventurers of both sexes...

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(The story so far: Colin Lang is planning something “violent and evil, if as yet undefined.”)

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Nine days after the night at the Munster Pub, a Sunday, Colin drove to Pennsylvania to get his rifle. The Pennsylvania state line was only half an hour away from Cottinend, New York, but the gun show was six hours west of that. Colin left before dawn. He had a money belt full of really a lot of cash tucked into the waistb...

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