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+> [!quote] _The Shadow of the Torturer_, Chapter 17: "The Challenge"
+> No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death---
+> every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright,
+> wrapped in authority older than the universe.
+> They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions.
+> Rightly we feel our lives guided by them,
+> and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them,
+> the builders of the unimaginable,
+> the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.
+>
+> The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great.
+> We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves
+> (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters,
+> when the truth is that our masters are sleeping.
+> One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts,
+> though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.