The Garden of Forking Paths Betrayal Quotes Page 2
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| Quote #4 I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies. (9) |
Yu Tsun's loyalty to his own race leads him to align himself with a group that he despises. Is it worth all the sacrifices he has to make?
| Quote #5 I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, that soon only soldiers and bandits will be left. (14) |
What is an "abomination" if not a betrayal of a sense of human decency? In Yu Tsun's dark dystopia, soldiers and bandits – the people willing to commit these abominations – will be the only ones to survive.
| Quote #6 I thought that a man might be an enemy of other men, of the differing moments of other men, but never an enemy of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams, or the West wind. (22) |
To Yu Tsun, the natural world is beyond the human world of petty enmities. Gardens have no nationalities and fireflies know no borders.
