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An American military general who drowned in the rain on Venus before the start of the story. He was found perched on a rock, head tilted back, mouth open, and lungs filled with water. Simmons explains the details of General Mendt’s death to the lieutenant as support for his decision to shoot Pickard, as he’s gone insane and is now trying to drown himself by breathing in the rain just like General Mendt did.
General Mendt Quotes in The Long Rain
The The Long Rain quotes below are all either spoken by General Mendt or refer to General Mendt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Long Rain Quotes
He slipped and fell. Lie here, he thought; it’s the wrong one. Lie here. It’s no use. Drink all you want.
But he managed to climb to his feet again and crossed several creeks, and the yellow light grew very bright, and he began to run again, his feet crashing into mirrors and glass, his arms flailing at diamonds and precious stones.
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In this passage, the lieutenant has just caught a glance of the second Sun Dome and runs wildly through the jungle toward it. His inner voice attempts to convince him to give up, encouraging him to fill his lungs with water and drown himself in the rain. This was the way that General Mendt died and almost the way that Pickard died (Simmons shot him to put him out of his misery). Instead of giving into this voice, however, the lieutenant musters the energy and determination to continue. It seems that the story rewards the lieutenant’s tenacity by allowing him Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissim
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General Mendt Character Timeline in The Long Rain
The timeline below shows where the character General Mendt appears in The Long Rain. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Long Rain
...means by drown. Simmons can’t believe that the lieutenant doesn’t know the story of how General Mendt died. They found him “sitting on a rock with his head back, breathing the rain....
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