“Bravery Is to Fight a Lost War!”

I have just brought to life a character who knots the thinking and skirts around a terrible pessimism by shouting, “Bravery is to fight a lost war!” From outside the poem, my mind tells me that “dumbness” also fits the metric and rhythm perfectly. That is true, mind, you are right…. But it is curious how reasoning often opposes honor, the latter demanding irrational conduct. “Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point”—Pascal lucidly points out. And there are times when to be rational is also to be mediocre.