Oh law, thou art a cruel mistress!
You would compel me solemnly to weigh words spoken in innocence. You would have me judge falsely the motives of those by whom they were spoken. And you would drive me to use those very words in the prosecution of those no more guilty than I.
The wisdom of the gravekeeper. The soft voice of the milkmaid. The brazen wit of the scholar. All misjudged in my ramblings and presented in a grotesque distortion of their true intent, as if spoken by the blood-thirsty murderer that ever skulks among us. Innocents all! Yet condemned by my accusations, voiced in a cloud of ignorance and self-doubt.
All I have done, I have done to serve thee my Lady. And yet the beast stalks us still.
Will you not take this blindfold from the eyes of thy poor servant and grant me the satisfaction of knowing my tormentor?
Nay, you will not. For my Lady Justice is blind, and pure hearts are brutally struck down while chaos and cruelty reign supreme.
Well, I will serve thee no more. This prosecutor is no longer in business.
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I have little clue as to the identity of the remaining Wolf and, since all that I have said to date has been amiss and has achieved little but the condemnation of innocent villagers, I have little confidence left in my own judgement.
Any one of you may be a Wolf, and yet three are not. A wrong choice toDay, and we have but one chance left. The fiddler may have finished his tune, but the village burns still.
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I should've fought for Ang's life and put my foot down. I should've trusted the gut feeling that I had the whole game. But I pushed my feelings aside and told myself they were silly.
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Yet another self-serving comment about a lynch victim.
You seem to have a habit of portraying yourself in a good light. Although that is of little use to me, since you would no doubt do so whether guilty or innocent. Might I remind you, though, that you were all for lynching Nogrod yesterDay. Here’s a self-serving comment from me. I never had the feeling that Nogrod was anything but innocent.
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At the end of the day I'm going to vote for exactly who I feel like voting for, and I refuse to be swayed by extravagant cases and eloquent accusations. I will post my feelings on things like voting and behavior and then I will vote with my gut. It's been right more often. It was right about Ang, Boro, and Eomer. My head hasn't been right once.
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As my somewhat melodramatic introduction to this post indicates, I feel much the same way. Every time that I have tried logically to analyse my fellow villagers, my thoughts have missed their mark.
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I feel like I want SPM to live till the end. I certainly don't feel him to be innocent the way I did Boro and most of the game Ang- Sauce could very well be the WW. But really, there's only a 1 in 4 chance that it's him, so that's a pretty safe bet. Plus, I can't think of a better WW to win than SPM. I like the way he's been playing and I'd love to hear him do a "Mwu ha ha! Here's how I executed my master plan..." at the end.
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You wouldn't be trying to flatter me to divert me, by any chance, would you?
Funny, though. I feel much the same way about you. Except that I am not so sure that I want you to live to the end. If for no other reason than to put my mind at rest and ensure that, should I survive until tomorrow and the Wolf remains, I am no longer plagued by the paranoia that has beset me throughout the game as far as you are concerned.
It might assist, however, were you to explain now precisely what you meant by that first post of yours, why it establishes your innocence and why, were you a Wolf, you would not say much the same thing to give yourself a cloak of innocence. You indicated yesterDay that you might explain, if your life were in danger. It would be helpful if you were to do so now.
Some further thoughts before I go.
Would it have served the Wolf’s interests to have played this game recklessly (which would implicate Diamond/Mithalwen), quietly (which would implicate Kath) or loudly and analytically (which would implicate the phantom/myself)?
And what’s with Diamond and this constant obsession with trying to tie up the votes at the end of the Day?
I will be back later (though probably not until much later, as I am busy today) with further thoughts.