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The autumn had dropped upon Bly…the place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.

Fighting in a trench or aboard a torpedo boat would have been better [Georg von Trapp] said. “There you hear shooting, hear your comrades fall, you hear the wounded groaning-you become filled with rage and can shoot men in self defense or fear; at an assault you can even yell! But we! Simply cold-blooded to drown a mass of men in an ambush!” (After he torpedoed a French ship killing 684 sailors)