He was a good enough player to realize how very... He was a good enough player to realize how very good the General was, good enough to understand something of a man's nature by the style in which he played, and the General had been brilliant in his conception, and coldly efficient in extracting every possible advantage from the slight superiority he had had at the beginningHearn conceded on the twenty-fifth move after losing a knight and a pawn in exchange for two pawns, and sat back in his chair fatiguedThe game had caught him, piqued his interest, and he felt a sullen desire to play again
"You're not bad," the General said
"I'm fair," Hearn mutteredame was over, he was aware once more of the jungle sounds outside the tent
The General was putting the pieces back in the box, seeming to cherish each one with his fingertips before placing it in its green plush container"This is really my game, RobertIf I have a single passion, it's chess
What did the
tiffany heart tag General want of him? Hearn felt suddenly badgered; their discussion, this game, seemed to follow out of some inexorable want behind the well-groomed and unresponsive features of the GeneralAn inexplicable mood caught Hearn, and his sense of oppression returned, magnified a littleThe air in the tent seemed heavier somehow
"Chess," Cummings stated, "is inexhaustibleWhat a concentration of life it is really
Hearn's sullenness was increasing"I don't think so," he said, listening to the accents of his own clear sharp voice with something like distaste"The thing about chess that used to intrigue me, and ended by being just boring, is that there's nothing remotely like it in life
"Just what do you think warfare is essentially?"
They were off againHearn wanted to avoid a discussion this time, he was weary of being maneuvered by the GeneralFor an instant he felt like striking the General, seeing the gray hair suddenly
replica pasha cartier messed, the General's mouth leaking bloodThe impulse was powerful and momentaryWhen it left, he felt merely badgered again"I don't know, but warfare certainly isn't chessYou might make a case for the Navy, where it's all maneuvering on open flat surfaces with different units of fire power, where it's all Force, Space and Time, but war is like a bloody football gameYou start off with a play and it never quite works out as you figured it would
"It's more complicated, but it comes to the same thing
Hearn slapped his thigh with sudden exasperation"By God, there're more pages to the book than you've readYou take a squad of men or a company of men -- what the hell do you know about what goes on in their heads? Sometimes I wonder how you can have the responsibility of sending them out on somethingDoesn't it ever drive you crazy?"
"That's where you're always missing the boat, RobertIn the Army the idea of
costume jewelry chanel individual personality is just a hindranceSure, there are differences among men in any particular Army unit, but they invariably cancel each other out, and what you're left with is a value ratingSuch and such a company is good or poor, effective or ineffective for such or such a missionI work with grosser techniques, common denominator techniques
"You're up so damn high you don't see anything at allThe moral calculus on anything is too involved ever to be able decently to make a decision
"Nevertheless, you make the decisions and they work out or they don't
There was something unclean about having a conversation like this, while somewhere out on the front a man might be rigid with terror in his foxholeHearn's voice was a little shrill as if that terror were somehow communicated to him"How do you work out something like this? You have men who have been away from America for a year and a halfHow can you calculate
balenciaga bag black whether it's better so many be killed and the rest get home faster, or they all stay over here, and go to pot, and have their wives cheat on themHow do you tot up something like that?"
"The answer is, I don't concern myself with that The General ticked his beard again with his fingernailHe spoke after a little hesitation"What's the matter, Hearn? I didn't know you were married
"Leave a girl behind, get a Dear John?"
"No, there're no loose ends in back of me
"Then why all this concern about women 'cheating'? It's in their nature to do that
Hearn grinned with a sudden relish, a little amazed at his own audacity"What's the matter, sir, speaking from personal experience?" He remembered immediately afterward that the General was married, apparently a piece of minor information, for the General had never spoken about it, and he had learned it from some other officerHe regretted the statement he had just made,
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