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Nope, will have to dig in! ('Watch, but do not govern; stop war, but do not wage it; protect, but do not control; and first, survive!' sounds very 3-principles-adjacent)



As to Whondertine, I'm with Mustafa Mond, and suspect the rovin' Cordovan hadn't lived long enough to discover that Bildung is an antidote to ennui?

(the World Controllers have an excuse not to offer proper Bildung; the Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality have no such)

Come to think of it, Goethe (1749-1832) was about the same age as Linebarger (1913-1966) when he started on Faust (ca 1800)...


Huh, our rovin' Cordovan died of a heart attack at 53, which (at least by XXI stats) is unluckily young.

I wonder if he might have killed another Lord o.I. — where is the which of the what-he-did?




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