There is a quote from Ender's Game that basically lives in my brain for free since I read it:
"And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—”
“You beat them.” For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding.
“No, you don’t understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.”
The entire dichotomy of "love thy enemy" and how you can reconcile that with hurting them has been very much in my mind, specially considering that I trained Aikido for a very long period of my life.
ending was nice but.....holy fuck, what a fucking phone call that will be
I get deux ex machina but,
deus ex piscibus
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I read the newest Hunger Games book because I’m a YA Librarian and have to.
It was fine? My problem is that it is a prequel to a character we already met and were even told the main events in previous books. Nothing surprising or twisty happens to change that.
Operation V1m Gets Rid Of Like Six Hundred Books proceeds well. In fact a large fraction of what remains are what I shall term the legacy Terry Pratchett books, because it turns out that it's surprisingly difficult to bring oneself to just... get rid of them. Or maybe not so surprising.
Anyway the time of ordering the Diskworld Library draws nigh. My shelves are ready.
V1m on
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CornerEagleMagic Man by HeartCopenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
The trick to getting rid of Terry Pratchett books is the sentence "Have you ever read Terry Pratchett? No? I'll bring one..."
My nephews are already taken care of in that respect.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Teamregular
I paused at the halfway mark in Star Trek: The Next Generation - Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David to read through Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski, the second in his Witcher novels.
Folks, did you know that Sapkowski likes one specific part of the human body. Well, the female body.
I'll give you three guesses but you'll only need one, because holy shit Sapkowski, reign it in.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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The entire dichotomy of "love thy enemy" and how you can reconcile that with hurting them has been very much in my mind, specially considering that I trained Aikido for a very long period of my life.
I get deux ex machina but,
It was fine? My problem is that it is a prequel to a character we already met and were even told the main events in previous books. Nothing surprising or twisty happens to change that.
Still, working my way through the first chapter, whose dick I gotta suck to get this anime?
Anyway the time of ordering the Diskworld Library draws nigh. My shelves are ready.
Folks, did you know that Sapkowski likes one specific part of the human body. Well, the female body.
I'll give you three guesses but you'll only need one, because holy shit Sapkowski, reign it in.
wait it was "creamy amplitude"