For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits … - Elizabeth Goudge

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I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Elizabeth Goudge

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)

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