chapter 1, part 1

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My name is Toven Bakkis, and this is my official apology to the world.

I do not write these things in order that you might think better of me. I write in order that you might think no worse of yourselves. One of our great poets has written:

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interréd with their bones.

So let it be with me.

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