Someone or something is using me to untangle the tangled plot over whose direction I have as little influence as the pen has over the poets who wield it, or man over the gods who manipulate him, or the knife over the murderer.

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Even this latest tactic is better suited to the rumpled and rumbustious, brawling seaman or jealous gods, than this stiff and awkward man.

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Rather than foisting gods and devils on the work of man, we should see it for what it is: the mad scramble of competition and collaboration over the years.

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Usain Bolt: The man whose name sounds preordained by the Gods, a real-life superman, the greatest sprint showman that ever lived, the world-record holder and the newly crowned double Olympic champion.

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We thought that only man could make something as forbidding as a slag heap, but apparently gods are capable of ugliness, too.

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