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Think about people who know how to take revenge and generally stand up for themselves — how does that even work? When they get gripped by, say, the feeling of revenge, nothing else remains in their entire being at that moment except this feeling. A bloke like that just charges straight at his goal like a raging bull, horns lowered, and only a wall can stop him. (By the way: when faced with a wall, these types — I mean, the NPCs, the achievers — they cave genuinely. For them, a wall is not an excuse like it is, for example, for us thinking types, and therefore people who do nothing; not some cope, a cope that our lot usually doesn’t even believe in ourselves but which we’re always very glad to have. Nah, they cave with complete sincerity. The wall has something calming for them, something morally cathartic and final, perhaps even something mystical... But more on walls later). Right, so this is exactly the type of man I consider real, normal, the kind that gentle mother nature herself wanted to see when she lovingly spawned him on earth. I seethe with jealousy even thinking about him. He’s a midwit, I’m not arguing that, but maybe normal people are meant to be midwits, how would you know?
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