The Man Who Played to Lose
9781465549730
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive… . Illustrated by Douglas When I came into the control room the Captain looked up from a set of charts at me. He stood up and gave me a salute and I returned it, not making a ceremony out of it. Half an hour to landing, sir, he said. That irritated me. It always irritates me. I'm not an officer, I said. I'm not even an enlisted man
