Beowulf

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…mental and moral endurance. Each time, the presence of time is evident, as was how strong time was at chaffing away at the heroes. Today this monster stands strong, even against our medicines and technology, which enable us to be superhuman in many ways as Beowulf once thought he was. But in the end, we will lose as Beowulf and Sir Gawain did, to the monster because nothing can surpass, nor defeat, nor outlive time.