High Adventure, Rich Living, and Hard Dying
You know what the problem with us is? Consider Petra Nemcova. She is beautiful beyond the power of words to describe, yet I cannot imagine any circumstances under which we would launch a thousand ships over her. And that's just sad. When men will no longer kill for the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, when the death we all desire is one at an advanced age in a hospital bed surrounded by generations of family, something has gone terribly wrong. Do I want to die in some godforsaken hellhole a thousand miles from civilization in a country with no tradition of liberal democracy? No, but I'm working on overcoming that aspect of my upbringing. "Died tragically rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship."