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	The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|André Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of ~~NM’s~~ models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and Gary{{LJ:Gary}} who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.		The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|André Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of Mailer’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and Gary{{LJ:Gary}} who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.

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	The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of NM’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and ~~[[w~~:~~Romain~~ Gary~~\|Gary]]~~ who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.		The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|André Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of NM’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and Gary{{LJ:Gary}} who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.

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	The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like ~~[André]~~ Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of NM’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and [~~Romaine~~] ~~Gary~~ who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.		The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn\|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux\|Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of NM’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and [[w:Romain Gary\|Gary]] who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.

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The sensitivity spectrum: To the poet, words are not only important, but he is even driven to tear up the individual word and try to find more meaning within. The general speaks in sentences so predictable that they are the equivalent of one word. For example: “Greater productive techniques are at the heart of delivering X bombs to Y target with maximum saturation, accuracy, and density.” There are really only four words in the above sentence. Which occasions me to wonder if there has ever been a general in modern history who was also a decent poet. I believe not. Totally not. One kills individual people in order not to commit suicide, but one orders the deaths of vast quantities of people because life is always seen conceptually—in other words, the general has taken the life of the people to be murdered away from them by his mind, before he even gives the order. He is merely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like [André] Malraux{{refn|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:André Malraux|Malraux]] (1901-76) was one of {{NM}}’s heroes when he was at Harvard. Malraux’s ''Man’s Fate'' (1933) was one of NM’s models for his long story, “A Calculus at Heaven” (1944), reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''.}} and [Romaine] Gary who have been good soldiers, but they were adventurer-soldiers, not bureaucrat soldiers.

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