April 14, 2007

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  "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.

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