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Read the excerpt from Dispatches. Because, really, what a choice there was; what a prodigy of things to be afraid of! The moment that you understood this, really understood it, you lost your anxiety instantly. Anxiety was a luxury, a joke you had no room for once you knew the variety of deaths and mutilations the war offered. The purpose of the paradox in the excerpt is to

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The purpose of the paradox in the excerpt is to highlight the idea that fear can be viewed in different ways. A paradox is similar to contradiction. 

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Answer:

Highlight the idea that fear can be viewed in different ways.

Explanation:

Paradox is the opposite of what someone thinks to be the truth or the opposite of an opinion admitted to be valid. A paradox consists in representing the absence of nexus or logic.

The absence of nexus in this text is intended to show us that "fear" is illogical, for that reason, it can appear in any form, without the need to establish a nexus in the events that are happening.