once pristine: 020210;1129
series: meta;231

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tony’s code is a different tonality but the tonally dissonant codes are overtones of an heroic warrior code, there is the myopia necessary to a warrior’s code : there is the physical and mental courage essential to a warrior code : but tony’s code is a social one, one of the specific team to which he belongs, this is also true of jack, and in these cases the team is formidable, but in the minority, battling in a vacuum or lost cause : a neurotic narrative relies upon flirtation with breaking the code against one's own better judgement : jack is implacable, his code is unbroken : tainted to the point of purity, that is jack