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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EMPIRE OF DEATH It is true that the most extraordinary and exact coincidences happen, as if pieces in the mosaic of life, made to fit together in some mysterious forecast of destiny, rush toward each other and are finally joined. The common motive of brother meeting brother or friend meeting friend from opposing ranks of a war is a not too crudely obvious one. It has happened over and over again, as if the two had been journeying toward each other by intent, and out of all the millions of men who accompany them, are unerringly accurate in their direction and their destiny of a poignant recognition or a last sickening sequel of wild warfare. This story, told by an American for a time in the Foreign Legion and then disabled and, by noteworthy privilege, allowed to join an observation party in March of this year, 1917, is entirely true according to his psychology. I am ready to assert it is true also in a definite sense made to fit all outward facts as well. Let me go back, he said, that afternoon when I sat by his bedside while he talked to me and tried to explain the message he wanted to send to a girl in New Hampshire. You've got to understand just what my connection was with Hugo and with her, too, before the war began. So I want to tellyou the whole business. That's not to be repeated to her, mind you. Only that I saw Hugo, and that he's?'safe, ' you can tell her. But I suppose I want, too, to pass over what happened?pass it over to somebody else. I'm tired of owning it alone and shutting it up inside me: for I don't know whether it's a treasure, you see, or only a strange secret. And anyway it's got to be shut up, unless you want to write it out, with a change of name, so that the people playing the old games?buying and selling and thinking the world will last th..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217625388 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021762538X |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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