It is what we've got to offer the next generation, yes. I personally think it's a better promise than any other we could possibly give... When I've been up here for a long time, I sometimes wonder why everyone out in the world doesn't go to school for alchemy. Don't they want to have this, too? Can it really be that we've done such a poor job of explaining it to them that they truly don't recognise what we're offering?
Even some of the students... I thought when I first met you that you didn't get it, but now I think you always have understood. You just disguise it from everyone's sight, and it takes time to see through your double bluff. But there are some freshmen who walk through these doors not quite understanding what they've signed up to do, and even if they do turn out to be well-suited, they don't know what they're aiming at. They sit through orientation lectures and they hear the language, and yet it escapes them what it really means to do alchemy. Our best efforts to be explicit remain sometimes unclear, even to those who will embrace it the moment they first understand. How can we have so much to give, and so few who come seeking it?
As for myself... thank you. I have, after all, a very good grounding-- from this academy, from my life's work, from Theofratus... if I am strong, I am indebted to so much for it.
It is such a shame.... It's like... we have something to say that relates to everyone, yet it seems like the words it takes to get each of them to understand it are so different.... There doesn't seem to be any one way of saying it that really hits everyone at their heart. I guess we're just all such varied expressions of the universe... and that's beautiful in a way, because it means it's a diverse place, but it makes sharing it with people really hard.
Even some of the students... I thought when I first met you that you didn't get it, but now I think you always have understood. You just disguise it from everyone's sight, and it takes time to see through your double bluff. But there are some freshmen who walk through these doors not quite understanding what they've signed up to do, and even if they do turn out to be well-suited, they don't know what they're aiming at. They sit through orientation lectures and they hear the language, and yet it escapes them what it really means to do alchemy. Our best efforts to be explicit remain sometimes unclear, even to those who will embrace it the moment they first understand. How can we have so much to give, and so few who come seeking it?
As for myself... thank you. I have, after all, a very good grounding-- from this academy, from my life's work, from Theofratus... if I am strong, I am indebted to so much for it.
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