[Philip II of Macedon to Sparta]: “If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.”
[Sparta]: “If.”

I think the stack would be as tall as I am.

Normally this would overwhelm me, but right now I feel excited about it; I am in the idea-finding stage of two papers, where everything feels possible. And astonishingly, Simone Weil and Flannery O’Conner (who I have been told disagree sharply, which they do — O’Connor calls Weil “ridiculous”) also say EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS sometimes about love and grace. It is uncanny.