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HOW

How to explain to a person living There that spiritual abyss and funnel from a bomb blast, it’s not the same thing.
How to explain to this person, the owner of a stylized life, that rising prices and rising death tolls, it’s not the same thing.
How to explain to them that dullness of visual acuity differs from the sharp pain from a deadly bullet.
How to explain that lack of compassion is different from the endless suffering.
In the works of art it is very important to make the literary truth higher than the earthly truth.
How to explain to people that it is really so, but only if it does not concern WAR.
WAR is impossible to describe or retell.

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