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I am positive this is an interesting and worthwhile read---but I just can't read it right now. Not only am I dealing with the grief of losing my father, I feel like our world is on the brink of WWIII and when I read these accounts of the horrific circumstances surrounding the young men of WWI, I can't help but insert the faces of my own three grown sons. This is too hard for me to read right now, but I did appreciate a couple quotes relating to grief:
"Grief is an iceberg of a word concealing beneath its innocent simplicity a dangerous mass of confusion and rage. Bereavement follows stages, and if a cycle can be identified within these stages, then the comfort found in reaching the final stage is often dashed with the realisation that circles have no endings."
"Slowly, slowly, the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst." -- D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Grief is an iceberg of a word concealing beneath its innocent simplicity a dangerous mass of confusion and rage. Bereavement follows stages, and if a cycle can be identified within these stages, then the comfort found in reaching the final stage is often dashed with the realisation that circles have no endings."
"Slowly, slowly, the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst." -- D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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