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@svat@mathstodon.xyz @markrprior@ohai.social This reminded me of Samwise’s musings: ‘The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind." Full quote: https://mountebank.org/sams-speech/#:~:text=Sam:%20I%20know.,But%20I%20think%2C%20Mr.