On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:23:47PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:41 PM, B. wrote:
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> > “Having grown up in an age of security, we all had a
> > nostalgia for the unusual great perils. The war thus
> > seized hold of us like strong liquor. It was under a
> > hail of flowers that we left, drunk on roses and
> > blood. Without a doubt, the war offered us grandeur,
> > strength and gravity. It seemed to us like a virile
> > exploit: the joyous combats of infantrymen in the
> > meadows where blood fell like dew on the flowers. "
> >
> > -- Ernst Jünger, Storms of Steel
>
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