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and at a safe distance
the horror of war is that it’s not just
a cliché, but an actual horror right now I’m sitting here writing this poem without any fear of the roof crashing in
Published 14th Dec 2023
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14th Dec 2023 3:43am
It does make you realise how brazenly lucky you are to live in a peaceful country…
15th Dec 2023 00:20am
It's at a distance -- and it's hard to imagine war coming to my doorstep. I'm grateful.
But you never know..., I also found this quote in Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth:
"There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives -- when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war ... Then it is that the submission of the soul to the Highest is tested and ... life looks out from the scene of human struggle with the awful face of duty"
(The character Daniel Deronda, in George Eliot's last novel (1876), titled "Daniel Deronda" [George Eliot, aka Marian Cross {née Evans} (1819-1880)]
But you never know..., I also found this quote in Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth:
"There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives -- when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war ... Then it is that the submission of the soul to the Highest is tested and ... life looks out from the scene of human struggle with the awful face of duty"
(The character Daniel Deronda, in George Eliot's last novel (1876), titled "Daniel Deronda" [George Eliot, aka Marian Cross {née Evans} (1819-1880)]
