
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954.
The First and the Last (1954)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: The Art of War, Chapter VIII · Variations and Adaptability
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
Quoted in Peter Charles Smith, The Great Ships Pass: British Battleships at War (1977).
“Attack, attack, attack—never defend.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
Interview with Joan Gordon
Context: There’s simultaneously something rigorous and something playful in genre. It’s about the positing of something impossible—whether not-yet-possible or never-possible—and then taking that impossibility and granting it its own terms and systematicity. It’s carnivalesque in its impossibility and overturning of reality, but it’s rationalist in that it pretends it is real. And it’s that second element which I think those who dip their toes in the SF pond so often forget. They think sf is “about” analogies, and metaphors, and so on. I refute that—I think that those are inevitable components, but it’s the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. Those flirting with SF don’t surrender to it; they distance themselves from it, and have a neon sub-text saying, “It’s okay, this isn’t really about spaceships or aliens, it’s about real life,” not understanding that it can be both, and would do the latter better if it was serious about the former.
Laura Riding and Harry Kemp from The Left Heresy in Literature and Life (London: Methuen, 1939)