A famous story tells of a Pope seeing a painting of Jerome striking his chest with a stone in penance. The Pope remarked, "You do well to carry that stone, for without it the Church would never have canonized you." It reminds us that even the greatest scholars struggle with their own temper and shortcomings [26].
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The deck tilted. The top of Sone 345 was collapsing, sliding into the trough of the wave. Chen grabbed the railing as the frozen crew dissolved into ribbons of pressure and sound. Below, the abyssal plain wasn't rock. It was the node —the silent, hungry bottom of the wave. A famous story tells of a Pope seeing
Not at the gantry floor. Through it.