my words will be addressed to those heroes who might still
be hidden in the world, those who are held prisoner, not by their evasions,
but by their virtues and their desperate courage. My brothers in spirit, check
on your virtues and on the nature of the enemies you’re serving. Your
destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your
innocence, the innocence that is
unable to conceive of their evil and gives them the benefit of every doubt,
refusing to condemn them without understanding and incapable of
understanding such motives as theirs—the love, your love of life, which
makes you believe that they are men and that they love it, too
