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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by programmerdude on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:09AM (#20490184)
It's possible he was echoing the callousness by not expounding on it. I don't think word count is the best way to measure importance in literature. Understatement is a tool authors use.
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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by 52-6F-62 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:35AM (#20491480)
You’re right!

In all probability the callousness in tone was the point. It’s also a common device in Russian literature of the time to gloss over such brutality and hardship. It’s a bit of a trope at how commonplace suffering was made to seem in stories and other writing by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and other contemporaries. See also: God Sees the Truth, But Waits

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