For Nicholas Deangelo. Peace. Another charm's wound up.
Tempt not a desperate man.
─Shakespeare,
Romeo & Juliet
I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."
─Mark Twain,
Huckleberry Finn