The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain B…

Iain Banks
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The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. ✨ Iain Banks (2002). Look to Windward, p.213, Simon and Schuster
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of … ▶
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish … ▶
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. ✨ Iain M. Banks (2012). The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel, p.230, Hachette UK
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you w … ▶

The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.

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