How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #13
Milo's eyes were liquid with integrity, and his artless and uncorrupted face was lustrous with a shining mixture of sweat and insect repellent.
"Look at them," he explained in a voice choked with emotion. "They're my friends, my countrymen, my comrades in arms. A fellow never had a better bunch of buddies. Do you think I'd do a single thing to harm them if I didn't have to?" (24.56-57)
Milo's has an obvious love for his fellow countrymen. He honestly believes that he would do them no harm, but overlooks the fact that the actions of the syndicate can harm his men.
Quote #14
Doc Daneeka lost his head during Milo's bombardment; instead of running for cover, he had remained out in the open and performing his duty, slithering along the ground through shrapnel, strafing and incendiary bombs like a furtive, wily lizard from casualty to casualty, administering tourniquets, morphine, splints and sulfanilamide with a dark and doleful visage, never saying one word more than he had to and reading in each man's bluing wound a dreadful portent of his own decay. He worked himself relentlessly into exhaustion before the long night was over […] (24.70)
Doc Daneeka surprisingly shows a loyalty to his trade during a horrifying raid. Instead of running, he stays and performs his duty despite the danger. We don't know what, if anything brings about this sudden integrity to his job.
Quote #15
[…] the vision of the naked man in the tree […]. Was is a ghost, then? The dead man's soul? An angel from heaven or a minion from hell? Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain? The possibility that there really had been a naked man in the tree […] never crossed the chaplain's mind. (25.12)
The chaplain deludes himself, exaggerating the significance of the naked man in the tree, by relegating it to only two possibilities: a divine sign or a sign of madness. Both possibilities are unlikely, and yet still easier to believe than reality.