"So THIS is (may we take it) Mitteleuropa:
Mr Corles was in command of machine guns
but when the time came to fire
he merely lit a cigarette and walked away from his
battery and seated himself in a field,
So some subaltern gave the order to fire
and Mr Corles did not suffer the extreme penalty
because his family
was a very good bourgeois family in Vienna
and he was herefor sent to a mind sanatorium."
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