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The world the world norman lewis7/7/2023 One could understand what an aid to untroubled killing the bombing plane must be." Apart from the rhythm and clarity there is the the duel between excitement and one's shame at being excited. Space, like time, anaesthetises the imagination. Beneath our eyes violence was being done, but we were as detached from it almost as from history. With the accession of this priestly essence he dominated the rest of the passengers. "Authority flowed back into the travel-weary figure. A French Foreign Legion colonel is on the plane with Lewis, and Lewis watches him as he sees the cloudburst of an explosion from une op?ration on the ground below. One of my own favourite passages is at the beginning of A Dragon Apparent, his book about Indochina.
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