The Parry Is Wrong." - Drizzt Do'urden

How Many People Long For That "past, Simpler, And Better World," I Wonder, Without Ever Recognizing The Truth That Perhaps It Was They Who Were Simpler And Better, And Not The World About Them?

Selfishly, Perhaps, Catti-brie Had Determined That The Assassin Was Her Own Business. He Had Unnerved Her, Had Stripped Away Years Of Training And Discipline And Reduced Her To The Quivering Semblance Of A Frightened Child. But She Was A Young Woman Now, No More A Girl. She Had To Personally Respond To That Emotional Humiliation, Or The Scars From It Would Haunt Her To Her Grave, Forever Paralyzing Her Along Her Path To Discover Her True Potential In Life.

Do We Behave Out Of Fear Of Punishment, Or Out Of The Demands Of Our Heart? For Me, It Is The Latter, As I Would Hope Is True For All Adults, Thought I Know From Bitter Experience That Such Is Not Often The Case. To Act In A Manner Designed To Catapult You Into Heaven Would Seem Transparent To A God, Any God,for If Ones Heart Is Not In Allignment With The Creator Of That Heaven, Then... What Is The Point?

A World Without Dragons Is A World Not Worth Living In.

There Is One Other Error In The Gondsman's Line Of Resoning, I Believe, On Ap Urely Emotional Level. If Machines Replace Achievement, Then To What Will People Aspire? And Who Are We, Truly, Without Such Goals? Beware The Engineers Of Society, I Say, Who Would Make Everyone In All The World Equal. Opportunity Should Be Equal, Must Be Equal, But Achievement Must Remain Individual.