As Ms Shafak summarises, “the state is privileged, all-powerful and yet paradoxically safeguarded as if it were a fragile entity in need of protection.” Between it and its citizens a gulf looms; conversely, officials elide its interests with their own.

Its entertainability in thought is not, however, anything that can be hastily and superficially and generally decided: we must work out a specific account of what it is to be an Absolute, we must meditate on its full implications […]

The Justicars had been used by the Magi Guild of Academia to oversee the actions of Magi for thousands of years. The Catholic church had recognized them in 1220 A.D. creating the Holy Order of Justicars after Pope Honorius III was attacked by a Purifier Death Squad. Pope Honorius III knew that open support was not possible so he secretly created the Order of Justicars as a cover for the Guild and signed documents proclaiming the Svalbard Islands the headquarters for the Magi Guild Triad for thousands of years, as their headquarters.

The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.