battle

shaving

trivia

dying

hospital

juice

viking

fairness

is fought not by the planning man, the man of strategy, or the man acting on the resolution taken. It is fought and decided by men deprived of these faculties, men who have dropped either to the level of inert matter and pure passivity, or blind force and pure momentum.

It is not the planning man, the man of strategy, the man acting on the resolution taken, who wins or loses a battle... battles are fought and decided by men deprived of these faculties, men who have undergone a transformation, who have dropped either to the level of inert matter, which is pure passivity, or to the level of blind ofrce, which is pure momentum. (simone weil 'illiad' : 22)

is a method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

battle, n.All

battle