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"Bless the man who's proud to say That the biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away."
Eugene Field, "Our Biggest Fish", A Little Book of Western Verse, 1889. [When the beauties would n't bite.]

2B to Operator 6O: I am definitely not the person to discuss this with.

"I can answer for it, that it [closeted] makes (if the worst come to the worst) most incomparable old maids."
Charles Lamb, Mackery End, in Hertfordshire, July 1821. [The oldest thing I remember is Mackarel End.] 

9S to A2: Why? Why did you betray us!?

"Resembling to once reproached fable of that amphibious animal held in ambiguity between fish and birds."
[« Comme il vous fust reproché autrefois de la fable a cet animal anfibie qui se tenait dans un estat embigu 
entre les poissons et les oysiaux. »]
Pascal, Thoughts (Pensées), XIV. Polemical fragments, 924, 1660. [Bipolar – no word, faith, honor nor truth.]

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A2 to 9S: Command is the one that betrayed you.

"Where is the first book, you ask, if this is the second? What am I to do, if that book had more modesty? 
If you still want to make this the first book, Regulus, you only take away a iota [I, half of II] from its title."
['Primus ubi est' inquis 'cum sit liber iste secundus?' Quid faciam, si plus ille pudoris habet?
Tu tamen hunc fieri si mauis, Regule, primum, unum de titulo tollere iota potes.]
Martial, Epigrams, Book II, 93.

2B was demoted to scouting duties with 9S. If bandwith sufficed to bid black box reaction, it was a murder.
A2 watches Emil spawn into slaughter. Now Commander White's mistress, Operator 6O takes notice of A2.