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So, the intrigue of Friday’s  UFC 207 main event at T-Mobile Arena is what’s bouncing around the mortal mind of the once invincible Ronda Rousey, and how the results inside the octagon will determine the future of one of the most prominent figures in the sport.

“You are being led into the inner sanctum of power, my young apprentice,” one pickup guru announces after extracting a promise that Strauss will not impart these lessons to his archrival, “and the price for betrayal is dark beyond measure of your mortal mind.”

This denial, the church’s in a massive sexual-abuse cover-up, or yours in your cultural circles, was not a fog ordained by God to cloud the mortal mind.

Alas! the curious laws of fate 'Tis not for mortal mind to know: The serpent hides his treacherous head Beneath the fairest flowers that grow.

If I speak, lastly, of the “impulse towards justice” as a further motive of the savant, I may be answered that this noble impulse, being metaphysical in its nature, is too indistinguishable from the rest, and really incomprehensible to mortal mind; and so I leave the thirteenth heading with the pious wish that the impulse may be less rare in the professor than it seems.