Islewood: So long … been nice to know you:

I will not be comin’ back this way; I’ve tarried here too long from a shortening day.

Been interesting, but I got to go see what’s just over the hill. When a body is a part of the over-the-hill gang, you find a lot of fun just ever pokin’ your head up.

Islewood: First criminalize and then disparage and dispatch

When danger and duty collide within a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I situation, words that make it easier to discount and disregard another’s humanity are rummaged up. To wit, on the killing fields of combat, troopers have found it more tolerable to dispatch a foe that is consider to be nothing more than a gook or slope or maybe a towel head.

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