Word: depresson
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...Fuehrer and his dead, domineering mother. Wilson, the older of the two flyers, has discovered a talent for writing and has come to love his cell. Connolly, his friend, is near collapse; reveries of his wife have a narcotic intensity, and when they are replaced, it is by suicidal depresson. Each man realizes, finally, that he has found a certain amount of self-knowledge in the hiding place. The book makes its point well enough, but the quiet conclusion is disappointing. The allegory that the reader suspected at the beginning was there all right, locked in with Wilson and Connolly...
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