We must rise to face them! There is no innocence among the
outsiders in our midst. Give them, the knife, the club, the fist if it's all
you've got! God rejoices in the spilling of wicked blood.
"We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we
clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against
the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned
Marines get all of the credit." ― General George S Patton, Jr
Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters' children
will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife —an axe age, a
sword age —shields are riven— a wind age, a wolf age— before the world goes
headlong. No man will have mercy on another. -Dronke (1997:19)
Five days ago... that's when I first had the nightmare. I
haven't been able to get out of my room since then. The phone doesn't work...
the TV doesn't work... I can't even get anybody to hear me when I yell... My
whole world has suddenly turned insane. My door's chained up, the windows are
sealed shut... And on top of that, someone chained the door from the inside.
How am I going to get out of here?
"The places we live define us as much as we define
them. They are filled with our remembrances. When we return to them, we give
the dead life once more."
"Take away a man's light, his clothes, his food, his
friends, his air, and you leave him with nothing but himself. And for most that
is not pleasant company."