[lit-ideas] Re: "lay the foundation for gentleness"
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:50:47 -0800
On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
>>The one swordfighting class I went to said that with a Scottish
sword you might want first to take the Achilles Heel or a tendon;
then you finished your disabled victim.
In knife-fighting technique that's sometimes called "defanging the
snake," cutting the knife hand. Of course knife fighting is so
ridiculously dangerous and unpredictable, one would have to have
the brains of a snake to undertake it.
On the foundations of gentleness, we have erected a rather fierce
structure. Mea culpa.
David Ritchie,
confident the Gatling will fire, but not in
Portland, Oregon
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