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Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. Everything you’ve done needed doing and was set in motion long ago. Let go of your self-pity. Your feelings in these events matter no more than a leaf’s desire to steer the wind!

— Lawrence M. Schoen Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)

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