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<blockquote>If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. {{sfn|Hemingway|1929|p=249}} </blockquote> | <blockquote>If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. {{sfn|Hemingway|1929|p=249}} </blockquote> | ||
There is a foreshadowing of Catherine’s death, but the words have more resonance | |||
as a statement on human destiny.Yes, there may be a rumor of grace | |||
in the phrase, “many are strong at the broken places,” but the pervasive tone{{pg|336|337}} is bleak. There seems an ''absence'' of God-language, providence, any orderly universe. So, have we not left the Garden for the wasteland? | |||
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