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Thenamir
Legate of Amon Lanc QOUTE: ". . .Eru/God . . ."
That is my secret intention. Can I get more specific than that?
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
If you asked me to build you a motorcycle, and I asked you what style you were looking for, and you responded, "Well I'll take what is standard, because I do not know exactly what motorcycle engineers have in mind." Then afforded me the budget, and then went on a journey, returning after it's completion.
Seeing the completed motorcycle you realize that there are many many things about it that do not appeal to you, and then, unlike before, you can see exactly what changes that you would have made to bring the bike into harmony with the new ideal vision that has dawned on your mind. Now you know what you want. That is what you have been asking of me, so that you may reject it, and then see clearly how to conform it to your own ideal.
This I have refused to do. I say to you Thenamir, I will not do this thing. I will not build this motorcycle for you. But now that I know the desire of your heart, I will force this thing upon you, and if you try to go on your journey, I shall hinder you when I may, I shall follow you and waylay you upon the road, and detain you.
You shall have your motorcycle, but Lo! I will try to force you to build it yourself, though you do not know the way. I shall show the parts I had in mind and that I have prepared for you, I shall show them each to you singly, and though apart from the others you do not know the purpose or meaning of each, and cannot comprehend how they are connected, still I will lay them out before you, in perfect reverse engineered order so that all you have to do is follow the trail of parts, applying them to the growing whole. When you are finished it shall be that same motorcycle that I had designed from the beginning, only now, ye shall love it. Ye shall love it more dearly and in your eyes it shall be perfect.
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