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| He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither reader nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. |
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| Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world. |
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| Don't you know he'd of took you with him? He'd of took you, boy. Like a bride to the altar. |
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| The animals dropping silently as martyrs, turning sedately in the empty air and exploding on the rocks below in startling bursts of blood and silver as the flasks broke open |
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| He pressed the leaves of trees and plants into his book and he stalked tiptoe the mountain butterflies with his shirt outheld in both hands, speaking to them in a low whisper, no curious study himself. |
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| Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. |
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| It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. |
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| But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all. |
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| Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. |
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| Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. |
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| He says he that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. |
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