How would you interpret this phrase? How would you interpret this phrase ‘all that was happening was without interest or relation’ in the last sentence? I think it means the pain was so severe that he had no interest in everything, right? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Chapter 9). The captain waved to me. They lifted me and the blanket-flap went across my face as we went out. Outside the sergeant-adjutant knelt down beside me where I lay, "Name?" he asked softly. "Middle name? First name? Rank? Where born? What class? What corps?" and so on. "I'm sorry for your head, Tenente. I hope you feel better. I'm sending you now with the English ambulance." "I'm all right," I said. "Thank you very much." The pain that the major had spoken about had started and all that was happening was without interest or relation.