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War es nicht sein Ich, sein kleines, banges und stolzes Ich, mit dem er so viele Jahre gekämpft hatte, das ihn immer wieder besiegt hatte, das nach jeder Abtötung wieder da war, Freude verbot, Furcht empfand?
Was this not his self, his small, frightened, and proud self, he had wrestled with for so many years, which had defeated him again and again, which was back again after every killing, prohibited joy, felt fear?
»Er arbeitet in einer Fabrik, die Chemikalien zur Abtötung von Pflanzen und Bäumen in Vietnam herstellt.« Vietnam war ein Land, in dem Amerika die Leute dadurch vom Kommunismus abhalten wollte, daß es von Flugzeugen allerlei auf sie abwarf.
“He works in a factory that makes chemicals for killing plants and trees in Viet Nam.” Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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