/lit/ - Literature

>>19306379
Heroism and death are closely linked. If the greatest men seize ahold of wreckage instead of bobbing in the current, that wreckage of imagined order must sink them in the end. The difference between a rising belief and one in freefall is not the belief itself, but the lives of men who carry that belief, and a hero is one who obeys the fatal call of cause or banner, obeys it to the last.