whether I have had a hand to hand fight." (page.165). There is a constant antagonistic social pressure for Paul to talk about his experiences at the front; so much as he can not feel comfortable in his home, or around his family and neighbors. "I breathe deeply and say over to myself, you are at home, you are at home. But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can not feel at home amongst these things." (page.160).
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