Talk about burning the flag and he gets all choked up. Funny, so many of these guys think the country stands for the flag instead of the other way ar… - Sheri S. Tepper

It seems to me, said Spiggy softly, "that when a race of man becomes so anthropocentric it regards other living beings as lesser consumables, it could get to be a habit. It might become easy to include other living creatures with the Gharm. Animals. Children. Women. Entire planet. Perhaps they, too, become consumables, to be used up and thrown away."

Picture this: A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.

Despite his concern, he was not so out of control as to forget that a frantic man is a careless man, a lesson every soldier learns soon or dies wishing he had learned sooner.