ENMITY : THE VERDICT
'They do not become full-fledged partners or brothers
until first their heads are off : we look at their track records
and then cut them to bits - any ribbons left we then claim as ours,
IF they can still stand up.' With that, I pretty much figured it
was as over as it could be. The guy speaking turned and left the
room, leaving some fearsome animus behind him.
I never knew it could be like this, with people getting so
chopped up over money and position - defamation of character
had, certainly, nothing on this sort of interpersonal assassination.
It wasn't anything I wanted a tattoo about, on my neck or
anywhere else. The summation to the jury went something like this:
'It is your responsibility to turn the impetus of this evil, if
you too so deem it, from the vulgar necks of our fellow men.
Before we are all finished, all dead. For there has to be
a higher reckoning to which we turn, first, before such
foul emotions as these men show is exercised upon us.
Men have died for less. And, second, before this rude
exception becomes the rule. Your work is before you.
Do it, and we can go.'
'They do not become full-fledged partners or brothers
until first their heads are off : we look at their track records
and then cut them to bits - any ribbons left we then claim as ours,
IF they can still stand up.' With that, I pretty much figured it
was as over as it could be. The guy speaking turned and left the
room, leaving some fearsome animus behind him.
I never knew it could be like this, with people getting so
chopped up over money and position - defamation of character
had, certainly, nothing on this sort of interpersonal assassination.
It wasn't anything I wanted a tattoo about, on my neck or
anywhere else. The summation to the jury went something like this:
'It is your responsibility to turn the impetus of this evil, if
you too so deem it, from the vulgar necks of our fellow men.
Before we are all finished, all dead. For there has to be
a higher reckoning to which we turn, first, before such
foul emotions as these men show is exercised upon us.
Men have died for less. And, second, before this rude
exception becomes the rule. Your work is before you.
Do it, and we can go.'
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