—American men, Louella said, have understood very little about the world in which they live. They’re new to anguish. Europeans have already lived with it. Europeans are concerned simply with existing. Americans have always had enough and to spare. . . . Naturally Americans are baffled by combat. It doesn’t have much to do with the stock market ticker and that dash for the eight-ten after kissing your wife. . . . But they’ll get over it after a time. There have been wars before, and men have recovered from them.
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