[Letter] Legate Ahmet Yildirim

[One_With_Nature]

Legate Yildirim,

I write to you regarding to recent announcement by the Major-domo Siursum Avek Res revoking the Government Accord law written by hand and recently introduced into law. I would like to offer my most sincere apologies for this oversight, I take full responsibility for the lack of clarity in the law.

It is my duty to uphold and preserve the integrity of the law and through my own sense of self-righteousness and superiority in this matter I have done quite the opposite, without consulting my colleagues within the Scribes. I have embarrassed myself, you and our office, for the Sultan himself to have to step in to undo my works, well intended as they were.

I would hereby offer my resignation from my position within the scribes as penance, though with the promise that if you should decline this offer, I shall take upon the humbling lessons taught through my actions and work to correct them.

Regards,

Witness Scribe Ekmel Fonzuvi

[Ahmet]

Mr. Fonzuvi,


We have indeed been sorely embarrassed, and democracy's spirit has itself been dealt a heavy blow it shall struggle to recover from in the coming months. I have no doubts in my mind that my co-Legate will at once begin to weave webs of lies, deceit, and subterfuge which will only hurl us further back into a pit of retrogress, and that he will sooner give the city entirely to the control of the Accord than to help in achieving my selfless, republican dream.

It was a serious mistake you've committed, but it was a mistake done with good intent. I would be remiss if I forgot to admit to no small degree of personal responsibility for bringing about this error, as I was half of the ultimate authority in passing it, and so dear sir, if you had to step down for this, then who's to say I shouldn't?

Remain in your position, Mr. Fonzuvi. There are few men with your talents and your strong sense of duty and honour in this world, and we'd be in a far sorrier state to have lost not only that law, but also you. Let us dare to struggle again to rid our Pyramid of its chronic corruption piece by piece, letter by letter. Should that we fail catastrophically, and that the plutocrats and patricians, fattened with the stolen syrup of victory, begin to snicker and sneer at us as they hold onto their still-bleeding whips of inequity from the heights of their power, then our children shall be reared by the lessons of our failures, and from our mistakes they shall bring forth a more brilliant fight than we could have ever envisioned.

I shall leave you, sir, with a fine epigram from one of the Magus's pedagogic pamphlets. I believe, and I'm paraphrasing here, that it went something like this: "Failure is the bitter seed of sweet success."

Respectfully yours,
Ahmet Yildirim