The time may be coming when an idiot acts on those advices and I am conscious of the fact that I might be one of those lined up against the wall. I'd rather die there than as a mocking expatriate in a neo-European suburbia.
The comment woke me up to the fact that I was nothing more than a gladiator in a pit, one who could never lay a killing stroke, never die, and never transcend the walls of the arena.