Wisdom twists and turns around the bend of fate that we create. With our books, our songs, our speeches, the world we envision is made.
In every shadow rests a word. A word springing from danger, fear, superstition. Why do we fear the dark? Because our worst words wait there. Each one of us in powerless to stop them. They can only be erased by thousands of words from thousands of mouths.
Even then all may be lost. For they have been forgotten before only to creep back into the thoughts of a few and spread like a plague.
Often the light sharpens the shadows that they may pierce all the deeper. For it too is made from words. Often it is believed that the words come from the light. But if that were so, we would not have so many shadows. Unless all shadows and all lights were the same.
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