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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA
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ings have strict limits for receiving external impressions, being even deeply impressed by an absurd sentence. A thing can be so painful that you feel nothing, so terrible that you fear nothing.

Having passed through the upper and lower batteries, I descended to the mess deck (under the armoured one), to the hospital, but I involuntarily went back to the ladder.

The mess deck was full of wounded.[1] They were standing, sitting, lying — some on mattresses put ready beforehand — some on hastily spread tarpaulins — some on stretchers — some just anyhow. Here it was that they first began to feel. The dreadful noise of deep sighs and half-stifled groans was audible in the

  1. ↑ There were probably more here than in the whole of the Japanese fleet.
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