Nova Peak Oh, I've got reservations about so many things.

Diaspora, the boy thinks it is not of german writ so it had probably not possess the german vernacular that Sagtannet ("sawtooth" in norwegian) or maybe Mahler had not taught him this yet. He continues to haphazardly tune in and out of Stag's memoir while planting his nose down for the littered caches around the territory.
— and he does not like to think about the likenesses between him and Stag as he goes one because that would invalidate all the self pity and reasoning that he deserved more than anyone else, or even prove if they were going by statistics Stag suffered more than he.

He finds fetid traces of fat and blood under a fir. Stopping to dig up its contents he murmur loud enough for his senior to hear, “How did you meet Mahler?” because he could care less about what came before.

The blatant hypocrisy fails to become apparent.