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"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new.
"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." [11] [12] [13] (Here the "gun" refers to a monologue that Chekhov deemed superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the play.) "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story.
One Arm (かたうで, Kataude) is a short story by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. It appeared in serialised form in the literary magazine Shinchō in 1963 and 1964. [ 1 ] It has been considered as a main example of the current of magic realism in Japanese Literature .
One Arm and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Tennessee Williams published by New Direction in 1948. [ 1 ] The volume was released the same year that Williams received the Pulitzer Prize for his play A Streetcar Named Desire .
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That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea, a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer ...
There was too much war left. We still had a lot of killing to do.” In a recent phone interview, Van Winkle said the decade since his combat tour has given him a slightly different perspective. “I tried to make myself and my Marines live up to those moral standards,” he said. “I mean, we weren’t pushing people around.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.