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“This area has been depressed for a long time. After a while, depressed people do strange things. They try to turn depression into a virtue—they need something to make themselves feel less helpless.
“Doctors try to cure problems whether they understand them or not. It doesn’t always work.
Pain was life; only the dead felt no pain.
Each Waynhim and ur-vile beholds itself and sees that it need not have been what it is. It is the fruit of choices it did not make.
“But the spirit of the Waynhim is different entirely. They are not reckless of costs; from the great Desecration which Kevin Landwaster and Lord Foul conceived upon the Land, they learned a horror of such passions. They foresaw clearly the price the ur-viles paid, and will ever pay, for self-loathing, and they turned in another way. Sharing the Weird, they chose to meet it differently. To seek self-justification.”
The Waynhim choose the manner in which they meet their doom.
An untold tale withers the heart.
“Thomas Covenant, I ask for your tale because I must choose. Only in stories may the truth to guide me be found.
