It is very hard to do what Eli and I do. To speak in truthful terms about that w

It is very hard to do what Eli and I do. To speak in truthful terms about that which we desire not to speak truthfully about. You must have a degree of mental discipline and emotional courage that most people simply cannot muster. And therein is the rub between the king, warrior, judge, scientist, and financier, and the mere soldier or citizen, or worker. We calculate.

To forgo the supernatural, wishful, felt, and ideal, and simply calculate, is very … difficult.