He was the fortunate one. To die in the war? To die in the war. To die in a state of belief. Yes. Belief in what? In what. How to say it. Belief in himself as a man in a land under arms for a cause that was just for a people he loved and the fathers of those people and their poetry and their pain and their God. I take it you’ve no such beliefs. No. Any beliefs at all? João pursed his lips. He wiped the bar. Well. Of course a man has beliefs. But I dont believe in ghosts. I believe in the reality of the world. The harder and the sharper the edges the more you believe. The world is here. It is
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