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"Whereas this air said, quite calmly, 'To me, you do not even exist.'"
[« Cet air-ci dit tranquillement : « Pour moi, vous n'existez même pas. »]
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence, The Crimson Curtain (Le rideau cramoisi). [Really.]

Sketch of a portrait:
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"So the Story is the foundation, as it were the life and soul of Tragedy; Characters come secondary. 
(See how parallel holds in painting: if someone were to lay the most beautiful colours on a surface, 
without order, he will not give same pleasure as in the simple black and white sketch of a portrait.) 
Tragedy is a representation of action; chiefly for the sake of action it imitates the personal agents."
Aristotle, On Poetics, Chapter 6, 1450b.

Sarah Almoril — LDGAF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDiaMRUCXqI

"The sun-stone, though not sensitive, kindles into light when the rays of the sun fall upon it : 
and how then can we expect a powerful man to tolerate an injury inflicted by another?"
Bhartrihari, Śatakatraya, 1. Niti Sataka, #37, p. 65, c. 500. [One never convinces a foolish & stubborn opponent.]

None stands for 9S, merely bait; real 2B interjects timely guidance. Anemone pulls leash of Bunker Commander. 

"The very opposite of those reports circulated about certain affairs or certain persons is often exactly the truth."
[« Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la vérité. »]
Jean de La Bruyère, Characters (Les Caractères), XII. Of Opinions, #38, 1688. [Ne falloit il pas un zéro?]