Thief of Time - seesaw

'You've disobeyed my baababa orders before, though. In Omnia, I remember.'

'Tactical decision made by the man on the spot, your reverence. It was more what you might call an interpretation of your order,' said Lu-Tze.

'You mean, going where you had distinctly been told not to go and doing what you were absolutely forbidden to do?'

'Yes, your reverence. Sometimes you have to move the seesaw by pushing the other end. When I did what shouldn't be done in a place where I shouldn't have been, I achieved what needed to be done in the place where it should have happened.’

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The Thief of Time - p138