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He knew the terrible sweetness of the melancholy in that music and how it soothed his father to be there within it . The baby screamed , Elliot screamed , the wife screamed at the father to do something , the father screamed back that he was trying . But as she lay in her bed in the moments before sleep overcame her , she mused again over what a complicated matter the war seemed to be . He sat with his hands on his knees and waited with the terrible immobility of those who have lost the means of talking to their children . The huge plane tilts upward , the loadmasters jerk the restraining hooks , and half the cargo tumbles out , the sacks falling like giant snowflakes . He lived in the U.K. for six years , mastered English , and now his brain , full to the brim with arcane Western knowledge , seeks constant release . The cargo bay is filled with two long rows of pallets piled high with white sacks marked with the World Food Programme 's initials in blue letters .