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  • What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

    Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House