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The rest of the plan is quite good, and if it works the way it is supposed to, we will do very well, and we won't need the lousy part. On the other hand, it almost certainly won't work like that, because plans don't. It will twist, creep, change, swivel, and mutate, until finally we're flying on sheer bravado and chutzpah, and hoping the other guy thinks it's all accounted for. You don't make strategy so that there's one path to victory; you make it so that as many paths as possible lead to something which isn't loss. }}
The rest of the plan is quite good, and if it works the way it is supposed to, we will do very well, and we won't need the lousy part. On the other hand, it almost certainly won't work like that, because plans don't. It will twist, creep, change, swivel, and mutate, until finally we're flying on sheer bravado and chutzpah, and hoping the other guy thinks it's all accounted for. You don't make strategy so that there's one path to victory; you make it so that as many paths as possible lead to something which isn't loss. }}


''The Gone-Away World'' is a 2008 novel by Nick Harkaway (the son of [[John Le Carre]]).
'''''The Gone-Away World''''' is a 2008 novel by Nick Harkaway (the son of [[John Le Carre]]).


World War III has come and gone, with a bomb that "makes the enemy go away." As it turns out, however, it leaves behind something in its place, a mysterious substance known as Stuff that becomes whatever you're thinking of--which most of the time is [[Primal Fear|whatever you're most afraid it's going to become]]. Only the [[Mega Corp|Jormungand Corporation]] knows how to make FOX, the substance that can convert it into mere dust, and as the story begins the protagonist is putting out a fire on the pipeline that channels FOX into the atmosphere. [[Mind Screw|Things get weird]].
World War III has come and gone, with a bomb that "makes the enemy go away." As it turns out, however, it leaves behind something in its place, a mysterious substance known as Stuff that becomes whatever you're thinking of--which most of the time is [[Primal Fear|whatever you're most afraid it's going to become]]. Only the [[Mega Corp|Jormungand Corporation]] knows how to make FOX, the substance that can convert it into mere dust, and as the story begins the protagonist is putting out a fire on the pipeline that channels FOX into the atmosphere. [[Mind Screw|Things get weird]].
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