GRGR(5): Pudding & human respect

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy! 

Seems I wrote this.  Seems especially idiotic, doesn't it?  Wish I
could figure out what I might have meant.  Perhaps there is something
in it after all.  Let's see.....

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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