Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Sat 15:41, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: as the hero of the

from the outset to Lucifer; the image reappears near the end of Volume II as the Rebellion itself, for a moment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], takes on the trappings of that angel's against God. The comparison is introduced through a letter written by William Tecumseh Sherman, himself a brutal warrior once relieved of duty on account of questionable sanity. Yet he comes in (so far,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at least; his march to the sea is not for some hundreds of pages) for less condemnation than his colleagues on the Southern side. The reason is tied to the type of tragedy the narrator sees in the war at this point--and, I think, to the kind most who read of it sense: not that it had to be fought at all, but that it continues without an end at hand while terrain, technology, and the incompetence and "honor"* of the so-called great-men lead to increasing casualty rolls. Sherman's goal, clearly stated, is a faster end to the war; the narrator knows he will help to bring it. Thus we have Grant, condemned by some as a butcher, as the hero of the