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"I went to the window&looked out then pulled a cord that shut the … curtains ... She had taken her hat off&her hair shone under the light. She saw herself in one of the mirrors … I saw her in three other mirrors. She did not look happy ... 'What's the matter, darling?' 'I never felt like a whore before,' she said. I went over to the window&pulled the curtain aside&looked out. I had not thought it would be like this.”

"The Italians were using up an awful lot of men. I did not see how it could go on. Even if they took all the Bainsizza and Monte San Gabriele there were plenty of mountains beyond for the Austrians. I had seen them. (...) Napoleon would have whipped the Austrians in the plains. (...) Still nobody was whipping any one on the Western front. Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever."

"Afterward it was dark outside & I could see the beams of the search-lights moving in the sky. I watched for awhile &then went to sleep. I slept heavily except once I woke sweating & scared &then went back to sleep trying to stay outside of my dream. I woke ... before it was light & heard roosters crowing & stayed on awake until it began to be light. I was tired & once it was really light I went back to sleep again."

'Some one came in and as the door opened I could see the snow falling.'