“‘I’ve done all this by myself.I know more than anyone.I’ve wiped out the boundaries of whole countries.I’ve walked in and taken anything I wanted.I charged in like a bulland toppled their kings from their thrones.I reached out my hand and took all that they treasuredas easily as a boy taking a bird’s eggs from a nest.Like a farmer gathering eggs from the henhouse,I gathered the world in my basket,And no one so much as fluttered a wingor squawked or even chirped.’”