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All Quiet on the Western Front Q&A - Lesley Paterson - Ian Stokell

The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith

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The Goose and the Gallows Humor

There's a lot of comedy in those sort of intense moments and when I got out in 79 I think it was I actually wrote an article in the New Statesman that was published in 79 about the comedy we went through while we were in Ireland. A really iconic scene in the book is them catching a goose and cooking it up for the for the rest of their mates so that's all they catch it in the book right they don't steal it from a farm they don't steal It from a farm right it catchesSo that was definitely added to to bring in that tension and then obviously the full circle of going back and the young French boy that was an addition of Ed's which I

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