Делать то, что хотел делать больше всего на свете, – это колоссальная инъекция адреналина. Ощущение такое, словно можешь летать без самолета.
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy — for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment. What is courage for us is fanaticism for him. We hold his examples of atrocity screamingly to the heavens while we cover up our own and condone them as just retribution for his acts.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
The wild world is the human world.