Lucifer Before Sunrise (2011)
“Tiger swelling to a great black-flickering monster of pain. Door opening like a shell-burst. Face swimming, expanding, great glaring doll of pink wax. Flames. Nausea. White chalk parapet rising up to choke frothing mouth. Drowning in nausea. Flares stabbing eyeballs. Flinching, sinking, drowning in shell-burst ears. (The door being closed quietly by nurse; light switched on, and off again, nurse departing. Thus the exaggeration of pain.) And slowly, as the hours dripped away, he shrunk back int...o his body and realised he was in a hospital ward, and how cushy it all was after the Somme … despite strokes of pain from pressure of wind against stitches.
And, as water drips on stone, If only I had not come back, to grow old, as we who are left grow old, to drag away our lives in night… * A Luftwaffe pilot, who had been shot down off the coast in the night, was brought to the bed next to Phillip’s. The pilot was badly wounded in chest and stomach. Both his legs were broken.MoreLess
And, as water drips on stone, If only I had not come back, to grow old, as we who are left grow old, to drag away our lives in night… * A Luftwaffe pilot, who had been shot down off the coast in the night, was brought to the bed next to Phillip’s. The pilot was badly wounded in chest and stomach. Both his legs were broken.MoreLess
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