open | prompt six | DEMONS

[wrens]

prompt six | D E M O N S be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you. ( friedrich nietzsche )

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CURT CONNORS | tasm

[connors]

[ His first instinct is to say that there isn't always a choice, but the words turn to ash on his tongue. He'd had a choice, after all. He hadn't been forced to take the formula, not truly. And so, instead: ]

And if it's the worst?

[payload]

[ Angels, demons; sinners, saints. All in all, it's an extremely subjective exercise — which is precisely why Capa doesn't indulge in it in the first place. ]

Those sorts of measure of worth aren't exactly easy to quantify.

[connors]

[ They're not concepts Connors turns to often, either, preferring the more straightforward measurements of his work, but he can't help the occasional crisis when research seems to be going nowhere. Counterproductive, perhaps, but something of a natural reaction. ]

No, unfortunately not. Though, that said, I imagine we'd have our share of troubles if they were.