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Bit Of A Melange But to live variously cannot simply be a gift, endowed by an accident of birth; it has to be a continual effort, continually renewed. Zadie Smith, Speaking In Tongues General Abner Doubleday wrote to Bachelder in this chastened spirit five years after the congressional appropriation: "It is difficult in the excitement of battle to see every thing going on around us for each has his own part to play and that absorbs his attention to the exclusion of every thing else. People are very much mistaken when they suppose because a man is in a battle, he knows all about it." Gettysburg Regress By John Summers New Republic