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Notes
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Epigraph: 'Let's live each moment to the full,/For thoughts they soon are gone./Piled up they'll make us quite a past/To build our future on.' (No author given)
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Scanlon's military references are printed on title page
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Herbert Scanlon
, 1929 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Sacrifice : The Story of an Habitual Criminal, single work short story (p. 6-11)
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The Soldier That Was Disabled,
single work
prose
(p. 12-18)Scanlon reflects on perceptions of hardship and adversity and how people of different classes are able to deal with trying circumstances. He relates the tale of a disabled soldier he met.
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Out on Night Patrol : A Vivid Story,
single work
short story
war literature
(p. 21-32)The narrator describes life in the trenches, the life or death decisions that must be made - often instantaneously, and the importance of good communications.
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