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We conclude merely that no documentation of any such interference has been made here . the country meantime is n't getting any more stable , we ca n't rebuild the oil infrastructure , no foreign investment is flocking in , reconstruction crawls at less than a snail 's pace because of the cost of security , foreign jihadis keep filtering through an enormously porous set of borders with two Islamist countries , politicians can never set foot out of the Green Zone without immense security details to press the flesh with the voters , the constitution never does get amended to solve the federalism issues they tabled to have the election , etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. ... Thus in what follows there is no commitment either to classical mechanics or to quantum mechanics , though I hope that everything I write will turn out to be consistent with the best physical theories available at present , or in the indefinite future . There is no episode in the cycle of Arthurian romance more genuinely Homeric in its sublime simplicity of submission to the masterdom of fate than that which I have rather reproduced than recast in " The Tale of Balen " : and impossible as it is to render the text or express the spirit of the lliad in prose or rhyme - - above all , in English blank verse-it is possible in such a metre as was chosen and refashioned for this poem , to give some sense of the rage and rapture of battle for which Homer himself could only find fit and full expression by similitudes drawn like mine from .