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Those who were wiser could console themselves that they had fought for their country and for honor. What did he know of such things? He simply felt that he was hateful because he had killed and caused much injury.

You ought to know that no one can worship the goddess of wisdom without some punishment.

Some literary purveyors of the heart are subtle in the vein of Woolf and Evans and Shikibu. Others go, "To hell with subtlety! I've an otherwordly epic of a tale to tell!" Thus we have Lagerlöf, a fundamental different in art without the slightest diminishment in quality.

Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite' is a great reading interlude for this.

I could be reading an edition that doesn't require taping up as I go along, but where's the fun in that.