Daughter of Elysium

“[Before Joan of Arc was given command of the french army, she was to be judged by 18 bishops of France to discern whether she really was on a holy mission sent by God, or a fraud. Seguin Seguin, dean of the faculty at Poiters, recalls excerpts of the interrogation:] ‘I asked her whether she believed in God,’ Seguin reported of the girl who spoke to angels. ‘She replied, “Yes, more than you do.”’ The Dominican professor of theology Master Guillaume Aymeri’s challenge to Joan: ‘You said the voice told you that God wishes to deliver the people of France from their present calamities. If He wishes to deliver them,’ Aymeri said, ‘there is no need of soldiers.’ The response Seguin described […] was exasperated, indignant, and hardly the words of a girl overawed by her interogators. ‘In God’s name!’ Joan said. ‘The soldiers will fight, and God will give them victory.’ It was an application of what Joan’s comrades-in-arms remembered as her favorite alphorism: ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ ‘What language do your voices speak?’ Seguin asked. ‘A better tongue than you,’ Joan answered.”

Corpses are like legos – you build stuff out of them.