GRGR(5): Pudding & human respect

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy:

--- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
 One of the clearest pleadings for human respect in the whole book.
> The   
>  clearness of the statement is pointed out by the drama-like style of
> dialogue.
> 
>   Why here? Why without ambivalence? Why Pudding? 

Pudding has learned something.  Recall that he saw the bond between men
in the trenches as noble, and retained a capacity for grief and
empathy, even a poetic sensibility (a la Sasoon?) in the lighted sky
above no-man's land.  Addlepated as he is, he hopes, as a General to
shepherd the only the morally pure to their deaths.  He does not want
the corrupt to die in battle and be damned; he wants his soldiers to
see paradise.  I think...

Mark
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