If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any… — Neil Gaiman
If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
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The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.
