...capabilities. As he listens to the sound of the guns he hears the pounding articulation of a new ideology: "What they said was, that men could still die for...careful planners would never be able to put it into a strait-jacket. . . . Ideals were not archaic things, beautiful and impotent; they were the real sources...

...fire Claude finds comforting because the sounds give him "a feeling of confidence and safety. . . . What they said was, that men could still die for an...would burn all they had made to keep their dreams" (419). Claude still carries this optimistic view as he smilingly dies. Claude's death embodies a collision...