Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@drglennsullivan Walking war cemeteries in Continental Europe powerfully affected me as a teen. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Apr 2022
@kebayf Kipling, one of the First World War's earliest and most prominent public supporters, wrote 'The Gardener' while searching war cemeteries for the grave of his son, last seen on the battlefield at Loos, blinded by an injury, staggering, alone.
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