Perhaps some new code may come out of all this . . . I hope so. —And if not? —Why then, the first British sergeant said in drunken triumph, we shall have a chaos far worse than in Momma’s bar this evening. This is merely a polite kind of anarchy, Esther. These people are expressing a desire disapproved of by society. But in relation to the world of 1944, this is just a bunch of gay people letting down their back hair . . . We mustn’t go mad over details, Esther. Big issues are much more important. It is they which should drive us insane if we must be driven at all. . . . All I say is, some
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