Comments on: Sunday Levity: Geopolitical strategy in popular literature

By: Ashish Gupta

Ashish Gupta — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:00:47 +0000

correction: preferable *to*

By: Ashish Gupta

Ashish Gupta — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:00:09 +0000

Why is surviving better than winning the wars? Being in misery but surviving for eons is much worse than living short but in glory when alive. Also, happiness and brotherly love is so preferable of icons like Leonardo. I would much prefer to see everybody happy than few winning glory or contributing to world.

By: Shivani

Shivani — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:05:32 +0000

Very amusing

By: Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:25:47 +0000

Ah.. that's one of my favourite passages from the book. For some strange reason it always reminds me of:

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. [The Third Man]

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:01:16 +0000

Gaurav,

It was rediscovering something new in something old If you read Asterix you’ll know what I mean.

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:05:50 +0000

Nitin,

So it was love at first sigh eh ?

Same here for Robert Heinlien