Chris’s Reviews > All Quiet on the Western Front > Status Update
Chris
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"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow[...] What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?"
— Jan 20, 2020 01:06AM
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Chris
is 73% done
"Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up—take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now."
— Jan 18, 2020 10:26AM
Chris
is 52% done
"Before my mother’s tremulous anxiety I recover my composure. Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone."
— Jan 17, 2020 03:55PM
Chris
is 42% done
"Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades—words, words, but they hold the horror of the world."
— Jan 16, 2020 01:25AM
Chris
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"We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk."
— Jan 07, 2020 09:19PM