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Journey into the night celine5/10/2023 That somebody’d got it all wrong, that the plan had been for maneuvers, a sham battle, not a massacre! Did none of those messages include an order to put an immediate stop to this abomination? Did no top brass tell him there had been a misunderstanding? A horrible mistake? A misdeal? The colonel was still as cool as a cucumber, I watched him as he stood on the embankment, taking little messages sent by the general, reading them without haste as the bullets flew all around him, and tearing them into little pieces. Something had come up from the depths, and this is what happened. How, when I left the Place Clichy, could I have imagined such horror? Who could have suspected, before getting really into the war, all the ingredients that go to make up the rotten, heroic, good.Īnd there I was, caught up in a mass flight into collective murder, into the fiery furnace. Excerpt…You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.
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