[ Augustine's thought comes at him fast and hard, relentless, nearly interrupting his own — ]
«Pyrrha put a dagger in your gut because a five-year-old thinks you're a jerk.»
[ (Having a good memory can, in fact, be a terrible thing, if it spans a long enough time; Augustine has always been very good, or very lucky, or both, when it comes to his memory's ability to know what to compress and what to store in full, long-term — but throwing John's own words back at him doesn't even really need that, anyway, does it?) ]
«Are you going to reconcile those for me, then? Going to tell me what you did do, John?»
[ There's an undercurrent, there, too: Are you finally going to tell me something genuinely truthful, even if it shows you're in the wrong?
Hard to say if it's even words, though, or just a prevailing sense of exhausted skepticism. What's the difference?, John had asked — he wonders, off and on in the back of his mind, he has wondered, since coming here, if John has managed to remember or re-learn the answer to that, yet. ]
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«Pyrrha put a dagger in your gut because a five-year-old thinks you're a jerk.»
[ (Having a good memory can, in fact, be a terrible thing, if it spans a long enough time; Augustine has always been very good, or very lucky, or both, when it comes to his memory's ability to know what to compress and what to store in full, long-term — but throwing John's own words back at him doesn't even really need that, anyway, does it?) ]
«Are you going to reconcile those for me, then? Going to tell me what you did do, John?»
[ There's an undercurrent, there, too: Are you finally going to tell me something genuinely truthful, even if it shows you're in the wrong?
Hard to say if it's even words, though, or just a prevailing sense of exhausted skepticism. What's the difference?, John had asked — he wonders, off and on in the back of his mind, he has wondered, since coming here, if John has managed to remember or re-learn the answer to that, yet. ]