Quotation about “civilization being only 24 hours and two meals away from barbarism”?
There’s a quotation about “civilization being only 24 hours and two meals away from barbarism”.
(I may have the number of hours and meals wrong)
Where does the saying come from?
I think I first came across it in a Terry Pratchett novel, but I found a web reference (which I’ve now lost) attributing it to a Larry Niven novel published in the 70s. I have a feeling it’s even older, though.
That’s certainly an intriguing quote. I have no clue where it came from, but I always like to watch movies where New York City is in the cross-hairs of cataclysm (ex. Independence Day, the Day After Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, etc.) and how New Yorkers turn into bottom feeding barbarians, each after his/her own skin. I think there’s more truth to that quote than one might think at first glance.
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Distant Drums [VHS] $7.68 … |
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The Eagle Has Landed [VHS] $9.95 This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat–or murder him if need be. The large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who’s been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges’s more famous works. The weak ending doesn’t help. — Tom Keogh … |
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The Mote in God`s Eye $7.59 Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning “Ringworld”, “Debt of Honor”, and “The Integral Trees”. Together they have written the critically |
