for-real

Updated: May 1, 2025

"Baseballs, medicine balls, cannon balls, rocks, bricks, darts, discus, hammer, javelin what-have-you. In a for-real battle I'd prefer ... chairs, I think. Flying chairs are really hard to cope with. Knives are too ... uh-uh, I'd much rather have you fellows do the actual executing. I'll start wearing a couple of knives in leg-sheaths, but I won't throw 'em or use 'em unless I absolutely have to.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Subspace Survivors