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[Beatty's handwriting is terrible. And he's writing quickly, furiously, as if he can't quite get it written out fast enough. So it's quite possible that something might have been lost.]
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes.
Burn the ashes.
You can't protect anyone from fire. It consumes them, dries them up until they cannot move. That's why we always used it. It was everywhere. It was primitive. It was the root of our civilization. We still claim it as an invention, but that was never right. The invention was the belief that we could control it.
You cannot control fire. You must only ask it and pray that it does what you request. Some know how to ask. Some don't.
[Private to Nygma]
They would have had him killed. For nothing. He was nothing.
But he helped.
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes.
Burn the ashes.
You can't protect anyone from fire. It consumes them, dries them up until they cannot move. That's why we always used it. It was everywhere. It was primitive. It was the root of our civilization. We still claim it as an invention, but that was never right. The invention was the belief that we could control it.
You cannot control fire. You must only ask it and pray that it does what you request. Some know how to ask. Some don't.
[Private to Nygma]
They would have had him killed. For nothing. He was nothing.
But he helped.