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by lifeisstillgood 4928 days ago
The perfect name reminds me of the Douglas Adams story somewhere in his third Hitchhiker book - about the Reason.

  And sometimes, after some of the worst of these outrages,   
  the Dwellers in the Forest would send a Messenger to 
  either the Leader of the Princes of the Plains or the 
  Leader of the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides and demand 
  to know the reason for this intolerable behavior.


  And the Leader, whichever one it was, would take the   
  Messenger aside and explain the reason to him, slowly and 
  carefully, and with great attention to the considerable 
  detail involved.

  And the terrible thing was, it was a very good one. It was 
  very clear, very rational and tough. The Messenger would 
  hang his head and feel sad and foolish that he had not 
  realized what a tough and complex place the real world 
  was, and what difficulties and paradoxes had to be 
  embraced if one was to live in it.

  "Now do you understand?" the Leader would say.

  The Messenger would nod dumbly.

  "And you see these battles have to take place?"

  Another dumb nod.

  "And why they have to take place in the Forest, and why it 
  is in everybody's best interest. the Forest Dwellers   
  included, that they should?"

  "Er ..."

  "In the long run."

  "Er, yes."

  And the Messenger did understand the reason, and he 
  returned to his people in the Forest. But as he approached   
  them, as he walked through the Forest and among the trees, 
  he found that all he could remember of the reason was how 
  terribly clear the argument had seemed. What it actually 
  was, he couldn't remember at all.

  And this, of course, was a great comfort when next the 
  Tribesmen and the Princes came hacking and burning their 
  way through the Forest, killing every Forest Dweller in 
  their way.
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Understanding allows for calm, energies from the unknown are able to be placed, to settle. Great little excerpt.