For Bill, Rick, and Debi
Brief excerpts from Henry V, Act IV, Scene III, by William Shakespeare used by generous permission of nobody, because they're in the public domain, for crying out loud
“If a ship’s master misreads the current, they take away his ship. If a spy misreads the undercurrents, they take away his head.”
—Attributed to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Commandant of German Intelligence, at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, Bavaria, Earth; April, 1945, as he awaited execution on suspicion of plotting to kill Adolf Hitler.