“What is the spirit of the bayonet?”
— United States Army
training question, 1964
A partial answer
in two parts:
Part I —
Another question —
“Know the one about
the Demiurge and the
Abridgment of Hope?”
— Robert Stone,
A Flag for Sunrise,
Knopf, 1981,
the final page, 439,
cited by page number
here this morning
Part II —
Today’s numbers, in
this morning’s context,
strongly suggest
a look at
A Flag for Sunrise,
by Robert Stone,
Knopf, 1981,
page 431, and at Hexagram 34, |
The Power of the Great,
in the context of a
Log24 entry for
October 8, 2005.
“There is no teacher
but the enemy.“
— Orson Scott Card,
Ender’s Game
Related entertainment:
the previous entry
and the Vietnam memoir
Black Virgin Mountain.