When the center no longer holds, the best lack all conviction, because only what holds to the center is worthy of conviction.

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The circumference held by a center is variable — a function of the center’s radiance.

In the case of the falconer, the circumference is set by the power of the falconer’s voice.

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When one falcon escapes the reach of speech and flies away forever, another can be trained and set in flight.

The training of falcons is the education of the falconer.

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Every object in orbit, leashed to a center by a radius of force, aspires to be a radius, autonomous and straight.

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Where things repeat forces compete.