Written By Cambria
March 17, 2019, 3:40 p.m.(10/4/1010 AR)
Sometimes, superlatives fail us.
Written By Cambria
March 17, 2019, 2:33 p.m.(10/4/1010 AR)
One must never underestimate moral cowardice as a factor in human existence.
Written By Cambria
March 17, 2019, 2:33 p.m.(10/4/1010 AR)
One must never underestimate moral cowardice as a factor in human existence.
Written By Cambria
March 17, 2019, 2:22 p.m.(10/4/1010 AR)
It is a good exercise to read what one will probably disagree with. How can one argue unless one knows with whom or with what one is arguing?
Written By Cambria
March 10, 2019, 12:50 a.m.(9/17/1010 AR)
Humor at its best is a kind of heightened truth.
Written By Cambria
March 9, 2019, 7:52 p.m.(9/16/1010 AR)
On the evidence, peace is a purely theoretical state of affairs whose existence we deduce because there have been intervals between wars.
Written By Cambria
March 1, 2019, 8:17 p.m.(8/28/1010 AR)
I have been thinking about those no longer in my life, lately. Not those passed on, but those who have drifted away. I wonder where they are, and what they might be doing.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 23, 2019, 10:20 p.m.(8/17/1010 AR)
While brevity may be the soul of wit, it can also be the soul of shallowness and superficiality.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 17, 2019, 6:48 p.m.(8/4/1010 AR)
My husband told me he was involved in a chase today.
I do not believe him. Hadrian never runs.
I do not believe him. Hadrian never runs.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 16, 2019, 7:38 p.m.(8/2/1010 AR)
There are few quiet pleasures greater than that of contemplating future catastrophe. Fortunately, we are spoiled for choice.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 10, 2019, 8:03 p.m.(7/18/1010 AR)
A strange coldness has settled upon me - the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 10, 2019, 12:21 p.m.(7/18/1010 AR)
Freedom often results in inequality, but freedom preempts equality in the scheme of things.
We are free to choose our path in life, which is why some win and some lose, so to speak.
As somebody once said to me, "Life is a mean game, and everyone is out for themselves."
We are free to choose our path in life, which is why some win and some lose, so to speak.
As somebody once said to me, "Life is a mean game, and everyone is out for themselves."
Written By Cambria
Feb. 5, 2019, 9 p.m.(7/8/1010 AR)
People need enemies and scapegoats. People need someone or something to hate. For there is meaning and vitality in hating. There is, above all, unity, especially in politics, defined as it is by conflicts and group interests.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 2, 2019, 12:45 p.m.(7/2/1010 AR)
Yet Will is not all that is needed. It is primarily manipulation, the more unscrupulous the better, that decides power struggles in this world. Arvani, then, may wish to pray for a little sympathy from the Thirteenth.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 2, 2019, 12:43 p.m.(7/2/1010 AR)
In politics, as in life in general, the most important thing is Will.
Written By Cambria
Feb. 2, 2019, 12:31 p.m.(7/2/1010 AR)
The minor inconveniences of life often cause disproportionate despair, at least if the reactions I have witnessed to them are anything to go by. Is life worth living, one wonders, when there is no space for a carriage and one has to search for half an hour merely to be able to get out of it?
Written By Cambria
Jan. 27, 2019, 7:51 p.m.(6/18/1010 AR)
I read somewhere recently that there is a Grayhope wanting to hear about heroes and legends. He asked specifically for individuals from the Hall of Heroes, but I am not interested in writing about any of them. We all hear about how our heroes weren't perfect or ideal, but rather men and women doing the best that they could. For those I consider legendary, it is because of momentary acts or reactions they had under stress, especially in battle. (Here's looking to you, uncle, but I am afraid there's another Marshal I must write of this time). Marshal Kalos Castre, who was the scion of a very old military family of Ostria. When he was assigned to the lost cause of defending a certain area during the Tor-Southport war, Marshal Kalos named his outposts after his numerous mistresses. There were two Julias, and a couple of Biancas, and even a Carlotta, but all twelve of them were named after his lovers. Just before his departure, his wife was rumored to appear awfully cheerful. When Kalos asked why, she said, "Because for the next several months, I will know where you are going to be." Kalos Castre, with whom I share a birthday, became a legend to me just for that fact alone.
So there is one hero, but I think I will write about a few others. And to that Grayhope out there: I know, I know, this isn't a proper entry, but I am having fun and that's good enough for me.
So there is one hero, but I think I will write about a few others. And to that Grayhope out there: I know, I know, this isn't a proper entry, but I am having fun and that's good enough for me.
Written By Cambria
Jan. 24, 2019, 11:47 p.m.(6/13/1010 AR)
Power ever draws other power. It is not a complicated thought.
Written By Cambria
Jan. 23, 2019, 4:32 p.m.(6/10/1010 AR)
No one lives a morally blameless life. There is no one whose private conduct could not cast him or her in a bad light if exposed by the right (or wrong) person to the right (or wrong) people. It is to our benefit for friends and family to reproach us for moral failings, but people in general should mind their own business.
Written By Cambria
Jan. 22, 2019, 11:04 p.m.(6/9/1010 AR)
Typically, when one seeks to take over something, they try not destroy it in the process of acquiring it. For example, if I were trying to rise up the ranks of the Iron Guard, I would not want to discredit the Iron Guard in the process. What would be the point of being promoted, if the post I finally attain has been made worthless? This instinct becomes stronger once you have gained control of whatever it was you were after. Now it is yours and you do what you must to protect and increase its value.
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