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 # 2026-01-07 06:41:??
 
-> [!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.
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 > (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.
+> though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.[^1]
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+[^1]: [[wolfe_1980_shadow#XVII - The Challenge]]