Summary and Analysis by Chapter

The Lives of the Dead

sniper A soldier who shoots from a hidden position.

jeez Euphemism for Jesus, used variously to express surprise, anger, annoyance and so on.

mind trip Refers to a state of drug-altered reality.

The Man Who Never Was (c. 1956) A movie which was a spy thriller about a World War II British spy trying to fool the Nazis into believing false plans for a British invasion of Greece. His nemesis is a German spy who tries to verify the identity of the British corpse on whom these false plans were planted.

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