Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
“You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.”
“The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.”