Madle named names. Some were on my list and some were not. Those that were not I assumed to be spear carriers. Tally had been well and reliably scouted. The last corpse went out. I gave Madle a small...
My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard. Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard...
Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into p...
While something would be happening inside. I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific elsewhere in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my te...
Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which the...
The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It’s the mortar holding an army together.
One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.
People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper...
Pull up a step, Ace, I told him. He did, but he had the fidgets. He kept looking for his lucky exit. I told him, I didn’t really want you. But I can’t get ahold of Winger. Not that I’d tried. What? Wh...
She is the darkness.
A club of sunshine whacked me right between the eyes. Like to laid me out. Gah! An ill omen for sure. These bright days are never kind. Everybody I ran into would be just like the weather: warm and su...
Seems to know you, the Captain observed. He thought I was dead. Jalena rejoined his party. He gabbled and pointed. Pale-faced men looked our way. They argued briefly, then the whole lot fled the garde...
Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.
I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.
I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. A...
Fright tends to fatten up on ignorance
The common wisdom among former grunts is that competent generals wouldn’t have screwed up so bad they got themselves killed and therefore there wouldn’t have been any need for a memorial. Soldiers are...
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
I’m going to adopt you. You’d make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think? Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, I think she’s right. Excellent!...
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