Virtues of War (2005)

Authors: Steven Pressfield

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“Sound military considerations dictate this, but in truth I have made the decision based on a dream. The god Fear appears to me in the guise of a panther. The beast is so black, he seems made of night. I track him in the dark. In the dream it seems imperative that I overhaul the panther and learn what he has to tell me. I have no torch and no weapon; I advance, gripped with dread that I will stumble into him in the dark and be torn apart. I awake trembling.
We have two Egyptian seers with the ar...my, as well as our own diviner Aristander. I sound them separately. The Egyptians both say the panther is Darius. Both dismiss my unease as based on our present deficiency of reconnaissance; our scouts have lost contact with the Persian army. The dream indicates no more than this understandable care.
Aristander makes no interpretation of the panther. Without hesitation he asks, “In which direction did the beast’s tracks lead?”
We march east.
The beast is not Darius. The beast is Fear.
It is two hundred ninety-six miles from Thapsacus to the Tigris.MoreLess Read More Read Less

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