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WOLVERINE
"If there's a difference between man an' beast, beats me what it is. After all man started as beast. Sure, they say man evolved a more advanced brain around the limbic or 'repilian' mind, makin' him more than a 'mere' animal, but the limbic's still there, maybe sleepin' at the core of what man's become, but always ready to awaken and in me, it's a light sleeper, wakin' hard and fast. I'm a mutant, more evolved than the average man in some ways, maybe less in others. Because I sometimes revert to the limbic state and get downright feral, even lost in a bestial rage, they call me Wolverine.
But I'm really Logan; a man, not a beast, and there's gotta be a difference. Maybe the difference between man and beast is simple, animals focus on survival, but man can think beyond, to death and even beyond that, to survival after death. That should make man more thatn animal, but all too often there's greater nobility in beasts, so maybe they have souls too. There's somethin' I heard at a funeral once an' I never forgot written by John Donne, a rare man who restores faith in man, 'Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more death shall die.' Kinda flowery for such a small fire, but nice an' brassy too as if havin' a soul lets ya spit in death's eye, an' live to tell about it in a better place. An' if that don't hold true for animals as well as men you can keep heaven, an' I'll go with the beasts."(Game, back of X-Men Unlimited #25)
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