Sunday, January 29, 2012

The wonder and support of a child

In Vasily Grossman's 'Time and Fate', Getmanov, a hardened commissar to a tank corps says; "a soldier can harden himself to anything. He can warm himself with smoke and shave with an awl. But what a soldier can never get used to is living apart from his children".

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