Reading All Quiet on the Western Front made me not only appreciate our (more or less) peaceful present here in Europe, but it also made me wonder about WW1 in general. Although I am from Austria, the country which had a finger in both World War pies, I have to admit, that I am frightfully uninformed...
- J'sais allumer le feu, mais j'sais pas l'rallumer quand il est éteint, déclare Poitron.- Ballot! dit Poilpot, si tu sais l'allumer, tu sais l'rallumer, vu qu'si tu l'allumes, c'est qu'il a été éteint, et tu peux dire que tu l'rallumes quand tu l'allumes.Il regarde ce qu'il vient de rêver.
“Who will dare to tell everything?who will have the genius to see everything?”This book is a maze. It's like a very difficult puzzle that nobody can solve. And when you read it, you realize that that maze and that puzzle are just YOU! It's a mirror actually, simply reflects your own image. When you ...
"... all we have, standing erect on the land of the dead, is the rebellion of our smile, the rebellion of being gay when darkness envelops us. We are divinely alone, the heavens have fallen on our heads.”(This was O'Brien's public domain translation, a Project Gutenberg download, the source of most ...