every righteous struggle in history, every worthwhile sacrifice, had been against suffering, against violence, against death. Now, that struggle would become impossible.’ ‘Yes.’ Jamil was mystified. ‘But only because it had triumphed.’ Margit said gently, ‘I know. There was no sense to it. And it was always my belief that anything worth fighting for - over centuries, over millennia - was worth attaining. It can’t be noble to toil for a cause, and even to die for it, unless it’s also noble to succeed. To claim otherwise isn’t sophistication, it’s just a kind of hypocrisy. If it’s better to
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