rusty muse has found her voice again;

[unreadability]

One can argue how much of a compliment it is, the degree to which you have missed me. Naturally, my very existence depends on your interest, wavering as it may be, but nonetheless - I shan't be able to say that the feeling is mutual. While simultaneously remaining truthful.

Seeing how it has been... peaceful, hasn't it? In the meantime. And pretending that the status quo is anything but preferable would surely be unhealthy, considering the sheer potency of your usual plans. Simply because you are in position to rule a world - ours, in this case - it doesn't entitle you to do so without any sense of regulations and responsibility.

Responsibility, first and foremost. Responsibility, most of all.

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[centeroftheweb]

I would argue that the status quo is rarely preferable. It far too easily slips into stagnation. Change is a virtue, especially in the modern world.

[unreadability]

Making you sound much like my husband who seems to prefer change above all, at any cost.

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[population_ctrl]

[centeroftheweb]

I would argue he favors change only as long as it benefits himself and his politics.

[population_ctrl]

There's a time and a place for lectures, Mireille.

[unreadability]

Jean Louis... is gifted out in the art of benefiting from his surroundings. In natural exchange. A gift which only serves to add to his political talent.

[unreadability]

She has returned to university life. If nothing else, she needs the practice.

[centeroftheweb]

A useful skill of course. But as you say, responsibility, first and foremost.

[population_ctrl]

And here I thought it simply came with the package.

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[unreadability]

As it does.

[unreadability]

Which makes it all the more imperative, for her to stay in shape. Academically.

[unreadability]

I can't take credit for that particular saying. It originated with my father. He said it often - to Jean Louis as well, I'm certain.

[centeroftheweb]

I don't doubt it.

I suppose it's a delicate balance to walk - between change and responsibility

[unreadability]

It undoubtedly renders every decision one makes highly explosive in its nature.

[population_ctrl]

... that's not what I meant.

[centeroftheweb]

Sometimes literally.

[unreadability]

Clarity is usually a strength of yours. It must be a sign of old age to see it fail you, Jean Louis.

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[population_ctrl]

Low blow.

[unreadability]

Should I be unsurprised if you're a man into explosives?

[population_ctrl]

University isn't my forté in any case.

[centeroftheweb]

I suppose it would be stereotypical. But in truth I prefer violence, when sadly necessary, to be more surgically targeted.

[unreadability]

So I'm aware. I've found myself an academical commoner, if one is to regard it from a socio-historical perspective. Us.

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[unreadability]

[population_ctrl]

True. Someone needs to balance the scales in this relationship.

[unreadability]

The individual over the populace.

[centeroftheweb]

In the regrettable circumstances when violence in necessary.

[unreadability]

As she holds every intention of doing.

[population_ctrl]

Really? She's hardly qualified.

[unreadability]

Only the naive believe in a world where violence is no longer a necessity, isn't that so? Under certain circumstances.

[centeroftheweb]

True. And sadly, the modern world has made untargetted violence that much easier.

[unreadability]

It's not a question of qualification, but one of intent. She holds every intention of... changing certain aspects of our lives. Irrevocably.

[population_ctrl]

In the end, it's our own actions that matter. Especially yours.

[unreadability]

We no longer live in a day and time when the woman can be faulted with a greater responsibility in the state of her relationship than that of her husband.

[population_ctrl]

I've never left, Mireille.

[unreadability]

One must wonder whether it wouldn't have made it easier on us both, if you had.

[population_ctrl]

Not for you.

[unreadability]

I've lost before, Jean Louis. And survived.

[population_ctrl]

At some point, the cracks will be too many. Mireille.

[unreadability]

It would be pointless, wouldn't it? For me to insist that there is more which holds me together. We both know better - that in truth, I consist of very Little.

[population_ctrl]

You've been through a lot. It's only natural.

[unreadability]

Albeit our attempts at reigning in the lunges are many and varied. To an almost desperate degree.

[centeroftheweb]

They have to be. Or our world would collapse into violent anarchy.