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He looked at me as if I was his one true love and I’d just promised to do something significant.
He didn’t take the hint. The hint would most likely have to be embossed on the tip of a hi-ex bolter round and fired up his nose before he’d notice it.
But knowledge still absorbed him, and I think it nourished him in the way that food or wealth or duty or even love kept other men going way past their prime.
‘This is important. I know it’s always important, but this is… personal. No screw ups.’
Perhaps it takes a glimpse over the lip of the abyss to truly appreciate the pure heavens above.
‘Because he told you? He’s right. But why is he right? You never wonder about that sort of thing. You never wonder what mistakes or decisions were made to arrive at that right way.’
She was right. It was so obvious, it chilled me. I wondered how many other, similar, obvious mistakes I had made in my life with my head so full of certain knowledge and my heart so numb.
and a zig-zag is not the fastest route of escape.
It’s a displacement activity. It’s something you can lock on to and do because you can’t do the thing you really want to do.
I believe radicalism is inevitable. We all become radicals eventually as we appreciate that we must know our enemy in order to defeat him.
He told us plenty. Isolation does terrible things to men’s minds. We couldn’t shut him up.
