Vulgar words in Light (Page 1)
This book at a glance
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It is like the sharply cut field of vision in an opera-glass, in which figures are drawn and shaded, and cross each other; where one makes out, at times, a hat bound and befeathered, swaying as it goes; a little boy with sky-blue tie and buttoned boots, and tubular knickers hanging round his thin, bare calves; a couple of gossiping dames in swollen and somber petticoats, who tack hither and thither, meet, are mutually attracted and dissolve in conversation, like rolling drops of ink.
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"For it's got to be well done," he says, "and even when you're fagged out, you must keep on rubbing hard."
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One or two well-defined cases of shirking were infectious, and you heard this refrain again and again: "As long as the others are dodging, I should be an ass not to do it, too."
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It's simple enough, even for a blockhead like you.
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"And why are there no trenches?" said a wrongheaded man; "why, it's because they don't care a damn for soldiers' lives."
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He talks and talks, and concludes by saying that after all _he_ doesn't care a damn as long as they let him alone.