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There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Speaker: Perle ThompsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But Old Derby was a character now.