[She says it with the sudden force that shows she is letting the words run free ahead of her, before something else can overcome them. It is wrong. No burial, no mark - an unmarked grave is the worst thing, the unfairest thing, to an explorer.
But it isn't worse than unrealised ambition, aborted discovery. And she must think of it in these terms - ambition, discovery, exploration and its demands, otherwise she will never make sense of it and it will be too much, too much.]
You have to keep moving. That's what you have to do. If you find what they wanted to find, it - [it doesn't make it better nothing makes it better] - it'll be the best monument they'll have.
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Date: 2016-07-04 05:22 pm (UTC)[She says it with the sudden force that shows she is letting the words run free ahead of her, before something else can overcome them. It is wrong. No burial, no mark - an unmarked grave is the worst thing, the unfairest thing, to an explorer.
But it isn't worse than unrealised ambition, aborted discovery. And she must think of it in these terms - ambition, discovery, exploration and its demands, otherwise she will never make sense of it and it will be too much, too much.]
You have to keep moving. That's what you have to do. If you find what they wanted to find, it - [it doesn't make it better nothing makes it better] - it'll be the best monument they'll have.