ow "[the] building [brings] to mind a shelled and ransacked village church in France, a rubbled space of stone block walls that [stands] amongst abandoned houses behind a part of the line where [he had] fought at two different stages in the war." (Book 1 Chapter 13 PP 103-104) Immediately after, he is plunged into a flashback of his service, and ends up screaming and trying to dodge imaginary shells. During the climax of the novel,
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