on swords... again

"He who does not fear his own sword is not worthy to hold it..."

The Pen

The Pen. . . gives. . . permanence to the evanescent thought of a moment.
- Horace Smith, Tin Trumpet

Ever wondered why the pen is mightier than the sword? This maybe is one of the endless list of answers. The pen is mighty because it gives permanence to man's most powerful abilities - his ability to think (which is to say his thoughts).

Evanescent means "tending to vanish like vapor." (From wikipedia.org)

my favorite weapon

although it has been said that a pen is mightier than a sword (and i have just realized the truth in this recently), the sword remains to be my favorite weapon. i am watching an episode of avatar: the last air bender right now and one of the characters, a swords master, said something really cool i had to pause what i was watching and post it in my blog. he said:

"just as the imagination is limitless, so too are the possibilities of the sword"