cannibalized in a systematic, orderly and documented fashion according to a protocol that doubtless already existed in the contingency files of one of the more tight-lipped ministries. Those left alive would be grateful for death by the time the city fell. “So everything will be fine?” said Thomas.
The authors writing technique is on display here. He has two opposing ideas related. He talks about the horrors of war, and then says everything will be just fine.