It is a casino and it floats. So to answer your first question: yes. It is a floating casino.
[He then sighs]
There are different ways I could answer that. I could go with the 'in Russia, the only way a poor boy can make it up the ladder is to play this game' answer. Or I could say 'we are all men who do not know how else to find purpose and meaning in our lives if we are not constantly fighting for it'....or perhaps even I could tell you 'the thought of living a quiet life and dying without any legacy sounds worse to me than being killed in a fight for an empire.' And all of these things would have truth in them. It is just that some days...some years....some of them feel truer than others. And you begin to forget which one it is that drove you the farthest.
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[He then sighs]
There are different ways I could answer that. I could go with the 'in Russia, the only way a poor boy can make it up the ladder is to play this game' answer. Or I could say 'we are all men who do not know how else to find purpose and meaning in our lives if we are not constantly fighting for it'....or perhaps even I could tell you 'the thought of living a quiet life and dying without any legacy sounds worse to me than being killed in a fight for an empire.' And all of these things would have truth in them. It is just that some days...some years....some of them feel truer than others. And you begin to forget which one it is that drove you the farthest.