🧩 Philosophy Jun 8, 2026 · Daniel Davis Wood

The Musket Ball

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The Musket Ball
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By Kent Kosack.

 
The musket ball.
The museumgoer stares at it, a dull but once deadly sphere sitting stately and harmless in a glass case. A Rust Belt museum housed in a former Gilded Age tycoon’s manor. The exhibit is about instruments of war. The evolution of war. The musket ball. Its texture compelling. The surface of the moon, its myths and mysteries.
The museumgoer stares.
Memories fill his mind. A musket ball’s bloody journey through time. A nativity scene of sweat, muscles, molten

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