Part II — Conflict
To hone is to trade ends for perpetual perfection
The danger in ceaseless memorialization is how close it lies to idolatry. To elevate the dead to such a status as false god (for what being that is limited to the imperfection of memory is not false?) is to ceaselessly perfect the imperfectable.
From Ode by Sasha
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