1:46:04
I know, Mother.
1:46:08
Perhaps you can get a job
that is not so dangerous?
1:46:13
Perhaps in the cookhouse.
That could be easily done.
1:46:16
Do it, then,
and if others say anything...
1:46:20
I won't let that bother me.
1:46:22
Now, you must sleep,
Mother. Come on.
1:46:56
'Mother, I used to live in this
room. All my things are here.
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'All my books, my beloved books,
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'but they no longer speak to me
as they used to,
1:47:08
'for I am not what I was
when I lived here.
1:47:12
'I am a soldier. My business
is not reading, it is killing.
1:47:17
'My knowledge of life
is limited to death,
1:47:21
'and I know now
I should never have come back.
1:47:29
'because it has no meaning.
1:47:31
'My companions at the front
are the only truth I know.
1:47:39
'I depend on them
and I depend on nothing ese.
1:47:44
'Mother,
it's a terrible thing to say,
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'but I feel I am now going back
to my real home.'