bested, passed, a really fast car drives by my station wagon in the right lane, slow and steady wins what race? the tortoise never won that race, it's a lie that's been perpetuated throughout history, much like other things that would turn nations against each other, conspiracies abound more than truth, stranger than fiction or books even, which bridge that ravine between what is and what would/could/should/have/left/inthisworld, friends return, when? questions to be answered, with no knowledge before hand, remembered shadows, living in shadows, brothers/parents, captured, self!=others, i am me