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The town could not talk, and would not listen.
"How'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug. It had no memory, therefore no guilt.
The taxes got paid and the votes got counted and the agencies of government did their work briskly and politely. It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know.
— Dec 26, 2025 07:36AM
"How'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug. It had no memory, therefore no guilt.
The taxes got paid and the votes got counted and the agencies of government did their work briskly and politely. It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know.
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A true war story is never moral. It
does not instruct, nor encourage
virtue, nor suggest models of proper
human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted or feel some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie
— Dec 24, 2025 09:21AM
does not instruct, nor encourage
virtue, nor suggest models of proper
human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted or feel some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie
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They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.
— Dec 23, 2025 09:11AM
