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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
--
"Suicide in the Trenches"

 

Siegfried Sassoon

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2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
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