Wars, conflict, it’s all business. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
The “punch” of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law — an imaginative escape from palling reality — hence phenomena rather than persons are the logical “heroes”.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
