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Just' now I spoke of conflict; I did not mean war in its universal or journalistic sense but in its impinge ment upon the individual. These notations of moods attempt to express that conflict between the delight of the flesh, which we call love or passion, and that agony of the flesh which is known only to the infantrymen of the line.
Even you may feel that these notes on war are over~ strained, morbidly self-conscious, petulant perhaps. That may be, but (taking into account all enthusiasms and devotions) I affirm that they represent to some de gree the often inarticulate feelings of the ordinary civilized man thrust suddenly into these extraordinary and hellish circumstances - feelings of bewilderment, bitterness, dumb revolt and rather piteous weakness. Poor human flesh is so easily rent by the shattering of explosive and the jagged shear of metal. Those of us who have seen it will never be quite happy again.
You may feel also an almost exaggerated passion or sensualism in the second part of the book. That may be, but it expresses the soldier's mood; a reckless and disregard of rules for conduct, a yearning of the flesh, a wild grasping at life.
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Just' now I spoke of conflict; I did not mean war in its universal or journalistic sense but in its impinge ment upon the individual. These notations of moods attempt to express that conflict between the delight of the flesh, which we call love or passion, and that agony of the flesh which is known only to the infantrymen of the line.
Even you may feel that these notes on war are over~ strained, morbidly self-conscious, petulant perhaps. That may be, but (taking into account all enthusiasms and devotions) I affirm that they represent to some de gree the often inarticulate feelings of the ordinary civilized man thrust suddenly into these extraordinary and hellish circumstances - feelings of bewilderment, bitterness, dumb revolt and rather piteous weakness. Poor human flesh is so easily rent by the shattering of explosive and the jagged shear of metal. Those of us who have seen it will never be quite happy again.
You may feel also an almost exaggerated passion or sensualism in the second part of the book. That may be, but it expresses the soldier's mood; a reckless and disregard of rules for conduct, a yearning of the flesh, a wild grasping at life.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- ISBN 13 9781330046746
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- Number of pages100
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