"While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Fossalta, he lay very flat and sweated and prayed oh jesus christ get me out of here. Dear jesus please get me out. Christ please please please christ. If you'll only keep me from getting killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters. Please please dear jesus. The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Vill Rossa about Jesus. And he never told anybody."
-Hemingway
2 comments:
hm.. that is the first bit I've ever read of Hemingway.
why the name change?
It is interesting, to me, that that is your focal point. I have never been able to say "ta da- this, this is the character outcome I am forever aiming at in my life" I've tried..I just know that what I perceive now is so very different from what I saw two years ago and my understanding of everything has been so drastically changed. From eight months ago.
I do like the teddy quote, very much.
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