Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.
Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.