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For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No. ↗
In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everbody who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know?" Like that would ever happen. ↗
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. ↗
Some were made with skill and intelligence Some with passion and charm But they, they were raw, and strived to remain so… ↗
It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance. ↗
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. ↗
