Waiting for the BarbariansHow do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them. After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empires settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been