Page 9

The speaker says war is God for those who believe in it, then places inherited fantastic names beside wanderers said to have nothing to do with death. The page closes as a note from Jack.

The conditional appeal to belief makes war a matter of faith as well as violence. The friendly signature addresses this stark claim to someone without explaining the connection between wandering and death.

A handwritten page that states 'War is not a child / War is God, if you / happen to believe / in that one', then says that with 'their fantastic / names passed down', 'All wanderers afterwards / have had nothing to do / with death'. It is signed 'Your friend; / Jack'.

The page reads as the close of a letter, turning a flat creed about war and belief into something addressed to a friend. The conditional 'if you / happen to believe' keeps the claim that war is God at arm's length, while the wanderers who come after are set apart from death.