![]() ![]() Cobb’s book is full of such quiet juxtapositions: a sheltered domestic environment against the unavoidable violent collateral damage of war. A Belgian soldier’s cap was perched on the upright and a scrap of paper was made fast to the cross arm and two peasants stood there apparently reading what was written on the paper.”Ī freshly dug tomb-the most rudimentary of its kind-on a vegetable patch. “In a beet patch beside one of the houses was a mound of fresh earth the length of a long man, with a cross of sticks at the head of it. Later, Cobb and the group of journalists he is travelling with come across this sight: Houses have been burned down and gutted with shells. (Not her exact words, but something like this)Īs World War I breaks out, journalist Irvin Cobb visits a town in ruins (one of many he passes through) after a skirmish between German soldiers and the Belgians. Two years back when I was doing a course in journalism, one of my instructors said the following about effective writing: describe mundane events dramatic words, and intense events with simpler words. ![]()
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