This cannot be about me. I have no enemies so big, so wide, so wealthy. If I did, they could just snuff me out and move on. Unless, I suppose, this enemy is so vast as to see no difference between this excess and a simple knife in the gut. Perhaps I have a great destiny, and it offends some deity or other, and so this is my pre-emption? But once again: to what possible end? What could be worth this?