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"I learned a lesson; also I made an axiom, all out of my own head—my very first one; 
THE SCRATCHED EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE THORN."
Mark Twain, Eve's Diary, 1905.

Brigit acknowledged the state of war, establishing first Eos military outpost.
Alec Ryder with special SAM had stolen from Jien Garson & all pathfinders.
Pathfinder recovery risks Brigid bent & burdened with Alec memory revival.

"He [the Commander] must to a certain extent guess them—guess whether the enemy army, after the first blow, will show a stronger core and a steadily increasing solidity or, like a Bologna phial, will crumble into dust, as soon as the surface is injured—guess whether the enemy from the burning pain of the blow which has been dealt him, will collapse powerless, or whether, like a wounded bull, he will be roused to a state of fury... 
Only he who does great things with small means has reached the goal."
Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1832), Book VII. The Attack, Chapter 22. On the Culminating Point of Victory.

Damien Rice (9 Crimes) — [Ada Wong] This Is Not What I Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj3hHwJBFZ4

"It is rather remarkable how much changes when we simply switch the goal from GETTING the last move to AVOIDING the last move. 
A left (right) end is called dead if each of its followers is also a left (right) end. 
Games in which every end follower is a dead end are called dead-ending."
Rebecca Milley & Gabriel Renault, A Survey of Partizan Misère Game Theory, 2016.
[Brigid might choose coldness, or warmth: 'So we really are in a fog in misère-play.']

Lady Gaga — LoveGame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mB0tP1I-14

Archon by claiming Alec Ryder just conceded victory to Brigit, by dead-ending. 
Brigid aligns each companion to trusty friendship & forgoes generation forever.
Cowardly & cold hearted Alec crumbled & residual asset went to Captain Dunn.

Andrew Belle — The Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwTCHRxv0c

"And this is our going down to Hades and slumbering there."
Plotinus, First Ennead, Eight Tractate, Section 10 [in abhorrent filth].