| Andrei: | Csn I exit from this dialog? Little here is poetic . . . | |
| Elijah: | Why can't science can't be poetic? | |
| Ellesha: | It is if you look deeply . . . | |
| Philyra: | I suppose you could say war is poetic, too. But that doesn't mean it should exist. | |
| Ellesha: | Well, hatred and insanity have their own poetry. It's not the poetry I favor, but it has a distinctive flavor. | |
| Philyra: | You really don't have a moral spine, do you? | |
| Ellesha: | Don't you see? What is music without dissonance? What is light without darkness? All your smug moral certitudes have their counter-weights, which also have validity in some time & place. |
