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Cultural References
- "neurasthenia" (4; also: 10, 13)
- "shell shock" (4)
- "MC Ribbon," "the VC" [military honors] (8, 22)
- "hypnosis" (51)
- "it was a Jewish funeral, you see" [British attitudes towards Jews in WWI] (35; also: 217, 247)
- "There's nothing more despicable than using a man's private life to discredit his views" [British attitudes towards homosexuals and homosexuality during WWI] (55; also: 70, 199, 200, 203-4, 220)
- "a Charlie Chaplin film" (60)
- "class distinctions at the front" (67)
- the Hydra (84)
- "Munition-ettes" (87)
- "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb. Physician heal thyself" (106)
- "I always paddle with me boots on" [contraception] (128; also: 193)
- "You're beginning to sound like a Bolshevik" (135)
- "Hymn No. 373 . . ." (149)
- "'The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth'" (183)
- "and the irony of it all is that's she's still pregnant" [abortion during WWI] (202)
- "the application of electricity" [method for treating war neuroses] (226)
