Some “startling justifications” occur early on when everyone is still sober listening to news on the radio and absorbing agents of anxiety like “ night raids, fires, fanatical Nazis, heroic marines, Axis excesses.” It’s actually the radio that brings the four strangers together: “And when in conclusion the instrument said — Buy a ... More @Wikipedia
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