The Indian’s tragedy was that being a spoiled and arrogant savage who wouldn’t lie down, and a brave and expert fighter who happened to be quite useless at war, he could only be suppressed with a brutality that often matched his own. It was the reservation or the grave, there was no other way.
Flashman and the Redskins, p.171, Pan Books edition, 1983.
Tags:Flashman, Flashman quotes, tragedy.
No comments:
Post a Comment