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In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance.
— Maximus · Gladiator
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a vow of revenge with no expiration date: the speaker promises to get it, whether in this world or whatever follows. Naming the afterlife as a fallback makes the resolve absolute, as if death itself couldn't cancel the debt.
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