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Mace understood the anti-absurdist hell nulls lived in and understood that his life, his duty, and eventually his death was preordained and serve the same purpose. He didn't resent or delude himself into believing he was free, that his actions were his own, because that is what gave him true liberty. Mace is a reflection of the modern man living in an absurd world: where our lives lack inherent meaning and the world is irrational, a null's life has inherent meaning forced onto it in an all too rational world. Mace embraced his duty—his purpose—despite being conscious of its nonsensicality; Lake is a slave who blindly follows her duty while assuming herself to be a free agent.
