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Use of Weapons

Culture Book 3

Iain M. Banks

Titolo della versione italiana:
La guerra di Zakalwe

For Mic.

Acknowledgement
I blame Ken MacLeod for the whole thing. It was his idea to argue the old warrior out of retirement, and he suggested the fitness program, too.

'Slight Mechanical Destruction'
Zakalwe enfranchised;
Those lazy curls of smoke above the city,
Black wormholes in the air of noontime's bright Ground Zero. Did they tell you what you wanted to be told?
Or rain-skinned on a concrete fastness,
...but still impressive murals, mostly of battlefields; other walls, painted white, supported huge mandalas of old weapons; hundreds of spears and knives, swords and shields, pikes and maces, bolas and arrows all arranged in great whorls of pitted blade like the shrapnel of impossibly symmetrical explosions. Rusting firearms pointing importantly at each other above blocked-off fireplaces. There were one or two dulled paintings and frayed tapestries on the walls, but vacant spaces for many more.
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