///"GILGAMESH OF URUK, ALL OTHER KINGS SURPASSING, WHO GAZED INTO THE ABYSS, HAD SLAIN THE BEAST HUMBABA AND THE BULL OF HEAVEN, LEARNT THE MANCIES OF STATECRAFT, AND ROSE TO THE RANK OF AN ANTEDILUVIAN SAGE. THIS WILD MAN BOB ROBERT BUILT FOR YOU A STOVE, AND FOR ANOTHER HE BUILT A ROOF, AND FOR ANOTHER PULLED HIS CART OUT OF A DITCH. AND NOT ALONE, BUT WITH THE HELP OF OTHERS! AND YOU WOULD ALL NOW LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE FOR HIM?"

"BUT GILGAMESH WAS OF URUK. HE WAS NOT OF TENNESSEE OR KENTUCKY OR VIRGINIA. WOULD GILGAMESH OF URUK HAVE LOVED US AS HIS BROTHERS, THROUGH THICK AND THIN? IF HE HAD SEEN US IN OUR RUIN, WOULD HE LOOK DOWN ON US AND SAY "I AM APART, THESE ARE NOT OF MINE OWN". HE WAS NOT OF OUR OWN, AND WE ARE A PEOPLE NOT EASY TO LOVE FROM A FOREIGNER'S EYE. IS GILGAMESH MIGHTY IN URUK? PERHAPS HE IS, BUT ONLY IF URUK EXISTS -- WE'VE NEVER BEEN. BUT BOB ROBERT IS OUR NEIGHBOR. HE IS OF OUR OWN. HE WAS OF OUR OWN WHEN HE TRAVAILED ABROAD IN DISTANT LANDS, AND HE IS OF OUR OWN NOW RETURNED, AND HE WILL BE OF OUR OWN FOREVER, TO OUR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, TEN HUNDRED THOUSAND GENERATIONS. AND OUR OWN NEED NOT BE COMPARED TO FOREIGNERS."