“It is starting like this. I am feeling itch like insect is crawling on my skin, and then my head is just starting to tingle right between my eye, and then I am wanting to sneeze because my nose is itching, and then air is just blowing into my ear and I am hearing so many thing: the clicking of insect, the sound of truck grumbling like one kind of animal, and then the sound of somebody shouting TAKE YOUR POSITION RIGHT NOW! QUICK! QUCIK QUICK! MOVE WITH SPEED! MOVE FAST OH! In voice that is just touching my body like a knife.”
-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation-
(page 1, and a child soldier fighting wars in an unnamed African country)
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