Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1131 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"This Indeed Was Often the Case With Myself"
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The idea
Having described prisoners cut for trying to jump overboard and whipped hourly for not eating, he closes that this was often the case with himself. The sentence is administratively calm. Its flatness after what precedes it is the most controlled thing in the passage.
In practice
Administrative calm, deliberately.
Where people slip
The flatness follows the horror.
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