![]() ![]() Similarly, he often slips into stilted scientific jargon when attempting to describe feelings and relationships, which can be quite jarring at times and often interrupts the flow of the narration. Lawrence seems to bury the emotional content of his war passages under a barrage of mind-numbingly detailed descriptions - an understandable yet distracting idiosyncrasy. The entire memoir can be read as his attempt to heal through contact with nature wounds that were inflicted by his earliest contacts with man. ![]() He was left emotionally shattered by his war experiences and unable to connect with other human beings. He fought in the British army as a tank commander for the next several years until receiving a medical discharge for severe leg wounds. Lawrence enlisted in the Spanish Republican army at the age of 14 and escaped to France just in time for WW II. ![]() The bittersweet memoir of a respected naturalist and novelist (The White Puma, 1990) who finds peace and a surprising measure of happiness in the Canadian wilderness after enduring years of bloody conflict. ![]()
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