Gentle readers.
Greetings from the darkness.
It was not my intention to speak again. When the words the end are spoken, one must have good reasons indeed to speak again.
So many fine words written from all of you. So many kind words. Thank you.
Regarding the recent discussions of greek vs christian mythology:
In, our tale, there was no redemption. The Salamander escapes, yes, but it is quite doubtful to me that he returns redeemed.
My guess is that the greek paradigm what is past is prologue will carry the day over any optimistic, christian redemptive attempts at rescuing the Salamander - or ourselves, for that matter.
My guess is, the Salamander will return, and it will be same shit. Different day.
To my gentle readers who murmured, the end seems somewhat hasty i can only concur. You are right.
I grew physically ill from the tale. Its telling, its complete lack of any moral redemption.
My less than gentle readers attempted to hurl this very amorality back upon me.You said, yes, a fine piece of writing, but you are just glorifying thieves.
My question to them remains unanswered: why are BitSwift and BitBay still trading at the same level? Why are those devs still fully in control, supported by their communities?
I cannot give you a better moral world than you are yourselves creating, in this, your only waking moment. Don't expect thieves to - out of nowhere - bring morality to your amoral picnic.
Some of you are convinced that i am the Salamander. I am not. A second read of the story will surely clear that up for you.
As for Bob, the story is perhaps not over. After all, unpaid soldiers become ronin. And ronin do not simply disappear.
If it isn't Ryan himself, then it is someone really close to him... maybe even "Holly, from Taiwan", a somewhat key piece in this simple puzzle and, definitely, the key to the undoing of both Robert and Ryan. Don't lose her trail because, for sure, this isn't the last we have or will hear of her.
As for TheSound and the Fury, your tale is wonderfully framed and written, precisely because there's no redemption. There can't be any. This is Ripley (from Plein Soleil, not from Alien) and Brutus, make no mistake about it, not Jordan Belfort. Belfort had balls. He refused to be sheep and assumed the risk that went with it, much like Vito Corleone. Here, just a bunch of cowards plotting in the dark on unruled (yet) territory, assuming no risk whatsoever. There are no "soldiers" here. Not even mercenaries, just a bunch of despicable, cowardly plotters. Lets forget distracting euphemisms. If there's any redeeming quality here, it belongs solely to Robert, Bob, Bobby. Everyone knows who he is. When law enforcement comes calling, guess who's gonna have a rather buffed cell companion for quite a few years? Maybe Ryan will fall also. Zimbeck the Turd? No way. He will weasel his way out of this by staying somewhere in Asia or even Europe, the Halo and BC and BAY a distant nightmare and still trying to con his way out and not working for a living, but I doubt in jail where he belongs.
The cowardly plotters will.... plot, of course. Always in the dark. Always behind a flickering screen. Spraying lies as abject as they can concoct -or as they are told- hoping for the wages of sin and, on a much more secondary level, some pathetic cyber-revenge. Maybe charging a few Walmart items on Bob's credit card.
Some ronin.
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