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Phillip smiled. “Good. The best way I’ve ever summed up the war as I see it is that one side, our side, sees a foul as being against the rules, and if you do it too many times you have to be removed. The other side, Jimmy’s side, sees fouls as things you’re allowed to get caught doing several times, and if you don’t, you aren’t trying hard enough.”
Brilliant assessment of "us vs. Them"
What if, when the new world was discovered, the Native Americans had horses and guns? Let’s find out!
Jimmy proposes rewriting history by manipulating it as they live it -- one shot at alternate reality
Jimmy was learning the hard lesson that the things we do to make ourselves feel big end up making us look small.
In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning.
Feminist perspective
