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Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?

— Chard · Zulu

A dented metal shield leans beside a wilting white lily in a dark waterside landscape at dusk.
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The speaker recoils from a scene of carnage, calling it a butcher's yard. The rhetorical question means they could not bear to witness it a second time. It expresses revulsion and exhaustion at bloodshed, put bluntly rather than as bravado.

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