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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 67, 1903 [Tennyson].

Stellar — Ashes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vv2rVf803s

"Women have less accurate measure of time than men. There is a clock in Adam: none in Eve."
R.W. Emerson, Journal XXVII, February 8, 1836. [Invert the relation in which our sex stands to women.] 

9S endowed his self-conscious flyer with personal memories. The direct hit fuses conciousness with Eve.
This time, things are different. Pascal does not shoulder a heart-rending task to play 9S, after 2B kills him.