The true warrior is not that person who blindly destroys for the sake of destruction, or creates a path of fire in his wake. Rather he bends to the will of his environment only to shape his world in his own reflection. He understands himself so that the future nor the past exist. Therefore, he can concentrate on the matter of living.
from The Cave by Jose Saramago
Fire lays down one irrevocable condition if we want it do to what we expect of it, the clay must be as dry as possible when it is placed in the kiln. And this is where we humbly return to that business about breathing into nostrils, and here we have to recognize how very unjust and imprudent we were to take up and adopt as our own the heretical idea that the said god coldly turned his back on his own work.
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