Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the sur…

Robert Graves
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
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The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. ✨ Robert Graves (2011). The White Goddess, p.53, Faber … ▶
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

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