A personal note, neither fiction nor non-fiction.

[__marcelo]

To kill a King, you have to love his name enough to want it. You have to love the King so much you'd strike him down to be nearest him, which is Identity.

To love a King you have to love him as he loves himself, beyond his face and his name and his body. You have to, when you hear Death's casual stride, prevent the death of a King with the

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[tigerbright]

This goes well with a (professional) story I read today, in which the Evil Overlord loves his empire so well that he grooms his son to kill him and take over.

[__marcelo]

Oh, nice.

[not_sally]

Dude, that's so you.
Srly, your dad totally chose the wrong career path. I mean, your evil lord material all over, so you'd have to be either an orphan or the descendant of some royal/imperial/over-lord-y kinda family, right?

[__marcelo]

Or a backup clone of Spaceball's Rick Moranis!Darth Vader *g*.