Please note: This is a "mirror" of the Copperbadge journal on Livejournal. It has the same content as Copperbadge and is controlled by me (Sam); comments you make here will be sent to me the same as on Livejournal. Because I rarely access this journal, you can find an up-to-date profile here.
The lifelong struggle of a benevolent temperament and a high conscience against impulses of inhuman ridicule and fierce impatience has set up a chronic strain which has visibly wrecked his constitution. He is a most implacable, determined, tenacious, intolerant person who by mere force of character presents himself as -- and indeed actually is -- considerate, gentle, explanatory, even mild and apologetic, capable possibly of murder, but not of cruelty or coarseness. -- Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
