Comments | mrissa: It's not like the Highlander: example 804.

mrissa

It's not like the Highlander: example 804.

Jul 24, 2011 14:39

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also_huey July 24 2011, 19:40:27 UTC

How do you feel about "all Clausewitz, all the time"?

mrissa July 24 2011, 19:41:55 UTC

I haven't actually seen that much Clausewitz for epigraphs (possibly I am reading the wrong end of the historical spectrum for this). So for me, "some Clausewitz, some of the time" would be really quite refreshing.

I just feel that any time someone groans, "Oh, that again," it's gotten to be too much of A Thing.

alecaustin July 24 2011, 20:18:54 UTC

Clausewitz is what people used to quote before Sun Tzu became all fashionable in the '80s, alas.

mrissa July 24 2011, 20:34:47 UTC

Ah, I missed the Clausewitz phase between Tacitus and Sun Tzu.

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sartorias July 24 2011, 19:55:57 UTC

Kinda like the only astrologer of the 1500s was John Dee.

mrissa July 24 2011, 20:35:21 UTC

Blerg, yes.

zalena July 24 2011, 20:09:59 UTC

Rasputin.

howl_at_the_sun July 24 2011, 20:25:46 UTC

Your tags, they are awesome.

mrissa July 24 2011, 20:35:07 UTC

We aim to please.

rysmiel July 25 2011, 00:46:04 UTC

I shall restrain my impulses to whack certain authors repeatedly (Jim Butcher specifically comes to mind) with the "To defeat your enemy you must pretend inferiority and encourage your enemy's arrogance" bit, then, because I am sick to the back teeth of reading stories containing the notion that all human conflict can be boiled down to "stand up to the bully and they will be scared off, show weakness to the bully and they will be all over you". Not all people one might wish to oppose are that tactically dumb.