the poison sermons forced into your head, the Euclidean space you have been, the universal concepts you were fed, the groundwork of the lauding that you dread. a lonely study session once again. a record of the places where you’ve been. but proof and prize were never in your head. immortalized is different from respect. the agony of victory becomes dismantled pride. the gloves brought back from Rome, the sanctity of sportsmanship betrayed, our hero tosses fool’s gold in defeat.