Nikoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
A New Version of Peace
This is the beginning of Graham Greene's The Hint of an Explanation:
"A long train journey on a late December evening, in this new version of peace, is a dreary experience.
I suppose that my fellow traveler and I could consider ourselves lucky to have a compartment to ourselves, even though the heating apparatus was not working, even though the lights went out entirely in the frequent Pennine tunnels and were too dim anyway for us to read our books without straining the eyes, and though there was no restaurant car to give at least a change of scene."
Could you please help me understand what he means by "a new version of peace"? Thank you
"A long train journey on a late December evening, in this new version of peace, is a dreary experience.
I suppose that my fellow traveler and I could consider ourselves lucky to have a compartment to ourselves, even though the heating apparatus was not working, even though the lights went out entirely in the frequent Pennine tunnels and were too dim anyway for us to read our books without straining the eyes, and though there was no restaurant car to give at least a change of scene."
Could you please help me understand what he means by "a new version of peace"? Thank you
Top answer
I know nothing about the book, but it seems that he is speaking of a time soon after one of the World Wars. After each war, there would be a new peacetime, with changes to the world.
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I know nothing about the book, but it seems that he is speaking of a time soon after one of the World Wars. After each war, there would be a new peacetime, with changes to the world.
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