Monday, June 22, 2020

 

For This

Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (London: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 154:
It might have been next year when we were walking in the country that I asked him the question his friends had asked him when he joined up, but I put it differently. 'Do you know what you are fighting for?' He stopped, and picked up a pinch of earth. 'Literally, for this.' He crumbled it between finger and thumb, and let it fall.



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