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Martin Amis on thinking (or not) about nuclear weapons: "The man with the cocked gun in his mouth may boast that he never thinks about the cocked gun. But he tastes it, all the time." (Einstein's Monsters, 1987)pic.twitter.com/81utg5Uguw
(I don't agree with everything Amis writes in the fascinating introduction to "Einstein's Monsters." But he's got a lot of amazing lines, ones that make you say, "holy shit, what a line!" Nukes as a topic rarely get writing this striking.)
This, to my mind, is one of the greatest sections from that stark, terrifying preface to Amis’ Einstein’s Monsters. What, indeed? The threat of *imminent* annihilation is gone: the very real possibility endures.pic.twitter.com/ZStH3qdTXF
Why must he kill his wife and children?
Give them the mercy of a quick death instead of an agonising lingering expiration from radiation poisoning.
Yeah but the thing is he didn’t really give a shit about his family - he was cheating on that wife pretty much non-stop - so I think he would more likely have thanked Brezhnev for getting him out of it and shagged some widow in a shelter. Lucky it never happened I guess.
Delete 'ed gun' from this and it's much funnier.
ahem...
That’s a great line. It could maybe only been improved if he had made it more concrete like “...but he tastes the gun oil/steel all the time”
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