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Harry Harrison

The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

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  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    And ran away. Discretion is the better part of valor. He who fights and pulls his freight lives to fight another date. I had no macho points to make. I just wanted to stay alive!
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    Those individuals who were intelligent enough to understand the philosophy were also intelligent enough to see its inherent truth. They also understood that they would have to find a place of their own to practice what they now believed in. Mark Forer wrote that the wise do not give up their liberty to the state. The converse is also true; the state does not voluntarily relinquish its hold on its citizens.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    "I know, I know," I said wearily, and finished changing. It takes a crook to catch a crook, and that crook Zennor obviously knew all about lockpicks
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    What do you see? You see Lieutenant Hesk staring back and you are beginning to think like him. Remember, Morton-you are a draft dodger, a man of peace, a reluctant soldier. Have you forgotten? Have you ever seen anyone killed?"
    "Not really. My aunt died and I saw her in the coffin, " "A man of the world . . . I've seen them die and it is not a nice thing to watch. And when you are dead you are dead forever, Morton. Remember that when you listen to the men of violence, the dogs of war, the sellers of hate. Do you want to die?"
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    Some police work. They just looked at their mail. I was beginning to think that sending my clothing from the reception center to the police station was not at all as funny as it had seemed at the time. There was a scratch of static and the announcer vanished from the screen to be replaced by another officer.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    Turn the problem on its head, that's what The Bishop had always said."
    What would that be in this situation? I was trying to get away from the soldiers, fleeing them, knowing they would be looking for me. So I should go to them. But that would be suicide. But where could I possibly go that would be totally unexpected? Why, the fort on the end of the harbor wall of course.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    He thought and the sight of the clinking coins had great calming effect.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    I rate survival ahead of vengeance. He put me into jail-you got me out. Case closed.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    So, without further thought, and possessed only of a suicidal and impractical enthusiasm, I had foolishly escaped. Only the luck that watches over the completely witless had saved my life and permitted my return, undetected, to my prison cell.
  • Arthur Mje citiraoпре 7 година
    Because of her, a woman, female creature briefly seen and instantly recognized. One glimpse and all reason had fled, emotion had ruled and I had attempted my disastrous escape.
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