Back to the OP's The Hollow Men:

He's just lost to us here. Even if our universe doesn't provide a way for him to continue, and I think it does, he can imagine his way out of that lame, weak universe.

He's just lost to us here. Even if our universe doesn't provide a way for him to continue, and I think it does, he can imagine his way out of that lame, weak universe.

No, not that.

No, not that.

Michael?  Who the fuck?

Michael?  Who the fuck?

Go on.

Go on.

A dumb kid with love, fuel of all tragedy.

A dumb kid with love, fuel of all tragedy.

I don't know if you're serious, but I did feel a real pang for Theon when he kept going on about the Starks and his own family.  Maybe it's an adopted thing.  Nothing can save him from what he's done if his horrible birth family can't, though. He can't be saved by them either, with sanity.

I don't know if you're serious, but I did feel a real pang for Theon when he kept going on about the Starks and his own family.  Maybe it's an adopted thing.  Nothing can save him from what he's done if his horrible birth family can't, though. He can't be saved by them either, with sanity.

None of that has much arc.  I still think and hope that Jon Snow is Jon Targaryen.

None of that has much arc.  I still think and hope that Jon Snow is Jon Targaryen.

Rob understood the swords when he made the deal, or he wouldn't have made it.  The main gist of her comments was that he had a responsibility and might fall in love in time.

Rob understood the swords when he made the deal, or he wouldn't have made it.  The main gist of her comments was that he had a responsibility and might fall in love in time.

The intro for this on the front page says "via" not "vie."  Did ya'll ever hire that copy editor?

The intro for this on the front page says "via" not "vie."  Did ya'll ever hire that copy editor?

Slavery molded the South into a political entity just short of a country long before the war. The precipitating crisis was that the territories wanted to become states, the North wanted them free, and the South wanted them slave.  That was the South already thinking like a country with expansionist aims.  The actual…