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Chapter 19

           "Iamgoingtoexplaintoyouwhywewenttowar.Whymankindalwaysgoestowar.Itisnotsocialorpolitical.Itisnotcountriesthatgotowar,butmen.Itislikesalt.Onceonehasbeentowar,onehassaltfortherestofone’slife.Doyouunderstand?""Ofcourse.""Soinmyperfectrepublicitwouldbesimple.Therewouldbeatestforallyoungpeopleattheageoftwenty-one.Theywouldgotoahospitalwheretheywouldthrowadie.Oneofthesixnumberswouldmeandeath.Iftheythrewthattheywouldbepainlesslykilled.Nomess.Nobestialcruelty.Nodestructionofinnocentonlookers.Butoneclinicalthrowofthedie.""Certainlyanimprovementonwar.""Youthinkso?""Obviously.""Youaresure?""Ofcourse.""Yousaidyouneversawactioninthelastwar?""No."Hetookthepillbox,andshookout,ofallthings,sixlargemolars;yellowish,twoorthreewitholdfillings."ThesewereissuedtocertainGermantroopsduringthelastwar,foruseiftheywereinterrogated."Heplacedoneoftheteethonthesaucer,thenwithasmalldownwardjaboftheshakercrushedit;itwasbrittle,likealiqueurchocolate.Buttheodorofthecolorlessliquidwasofbitteralmonds,acridandterrifying.Hehastilyremovedthesauceratarm’slengthtothefarcorneroftheterrace;thenreturned."Suicidepills?""Precisely.Hydrocyanicacid."Hepickedupthedie,andshowedmesixsides.Ismiled."Youwantmetothrow?""Iofferyouanentirewarinonesecond.""SupposingIdon’twantit?""Think.Inaminutefromnowyoucouldbesaying,Iriskeddeath.

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