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He wore the expression of a man who has heard all this before, and is not enjoying it any better the second time.
The Day After Judgment (1971)
One thing you learn fast in the munitions business is that it’s a very good idea to stay off battlefields.
The Day After Judgment (1971)
Perhaps indeed Jehovah is not dead,
But mere retir’d, withdrawn or otherwise
Contracted hath, as Zohar subtle saith,
His Essence Infinite; and, Epicurean, waits
The outcome vast with vast indifference.
The Day After Judgment (1971)
“Though the wicked may hide, the claws of crabs are dangerous people in bridges,” Father Selahny intoned abruptly. As was the case with all his utterances, the group would doubtless find out what this one meant only after sorting out its mixed mythologies and folklores, and long after it was too late to do anything about it.
The Day After Judgment (1971)
This senseless advance of expensively trained and equipped men to certain and complete slaughter—men who as usual not only had no idea of what they were dying for, but had been actively misled about it—made about as much military sense as the Siege of Sevastopol or the Battle of the Marne. Certainly it was spectacular, but intellectually it was not even very interesting.
The Day After Judgment (1971)