![]() “Outside, everyone is shooting, without knowing at whom or what for.”) Against whom? For whom? That is scarcely a matter of importance.” (Which reminds me of a passage in A Curse on Dostoevsky by Atiq Rahimi All through the story there is a continuous backdrop of distant and near gunfire and explosions from grenades and rockets destroying the city. The general who is the main character says “If a man has a rifle in his hands and a beltful of cartridges, surely he should use them. He came to believe that the social justice being promoted by the revolt was equalized by the evils occurring. ![]() ![]() What he saw and later wrote about soured him on the Revolution. The author (1873-1952) knows first-hand what he writes about because he joined as a doctor an army that was part of Pancho Villa’s forces in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-14. ![]()
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