The instant the blades touched, each felt them tingle to their very points with a personal vitality, as if they were two naked nerves of steel.
剑刃相触的瞬间,两人都感到剑尖也随之震颤,仿佛剑有了自身的生命,成了两根裸露的钢铁神经。
— G. K. Chesterton · The Ball and the Cross · III · Some Old Curiosities —