The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms. - Michael F. Flynn

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s.

I know my equations are true," she mused aloud. "I need to know if they are fact.

The stories I have to tell are not for the ears of youngsters. What were the stories, really? A crowd of men charged from the trench. Later, some of them came back. What more was there to say? Once, a long time ago, war had been glamorous, with pageantry and uniforms to shame a peacock. Now it was only necessary, and the uniforms were the color of mud.