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Not loving it, but worth finishing. Interesting historical account of the end of third reich.

I’ve been carting this around since the early 1980s. Didn’t realize till now it was his last. Only picked up because it was a favorite of my favorite at the time, Kerouac. Ignoring his blighted politics in order to accept his writing as he intended.

[T]hat Red Cross man had a good heart ... I don't think he was taken in ... later on I was in even tighter squeezes ... without doctors and medicine I'd never have come through ... that's why in the great epileptic moments, purges, massacres, assorted lunacies, the doctors ... black, yellow, or white regardless ... get it in the neck ... they know too much ... they're too clannish, unforgivable and unforgiven ...

If you've ever passed through armies in flames ... yourself, I mean, not your brother-in-law, through jellied cities and empires, and desperate, panting populations, offering you, oh yes! ... their babies, their wives, and then some! ... anybody! anything! ... just so the damage! the lightning! should come down on you! and not them! ... nothing will ever surprise you any more ....

"Celine, we're starting a neo-movement of national resurrection! We're counting on you!"
"Don't! ... I don't want to revive anything at all! ... Europe died at Stalingrad ... the devil has its soul! he can keep it! ... the stinking whore!"