:53:08
Jim was far from sure
whether or not...
:53:10
Catherine was trying to seduce him
:53:13
She never revealed her goal
until she'd scored
:53:27
Hello, Sabine
:53:29
How're you and your mama?
:53:31
Fine
:53:40
Hello, Albert
:53:44
You shaved your mustache?
:53:45
Like everyone else! But l feel naked.
l'm going to let it grow back
:53:51
Albert was wounded in the trenches
:53:55
l'm OK now but when l woke up...
:53:57
and found a surgeon
digging in my skull...
:54:00
l thought of Oscar Wilde:
God, spare me physical pain!
:54:03
l can cope with moral suffering!
:54:05
The disgusting part of war is...
:54:07
it deprives a man
of his own individual battle
:54:10
Yes but l think he can still
wage it at the same time
:54:15
l remember a gunner
l met in the hospital
:54:18
While on leave
he met a girl in a train...
:54:22
and they talked
between Nice and Marseilles
:54:24
As she left she gave him her address
:54:27
For 2 years he frantically wrote her
daily from the trenches...
:54:31
on wrapping paper by candlelight
:54:33
As the shells fell,
his tone became more intimate
:54:36
At first he wrote Dear Miss
and ended with My sincerest respects
:54:41
ln the 3rd one he called her
My little fairy and...
:54:44
then it was My adorable fairy...
:54:46
and then l kiss your hands...
then l kiss your forehead
:54:50
Then he spoke of the photo
she'd sent...
:54:53
and of the breasts
he imagined under her housecoat
:54:56
Soon he said l love you terribly