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#4528 | T: 117 | I: 10 | [ all other expressions lie in a winter sleep , life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death ; -- it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct -- it has reinforced us with dullness , so that we do not go to pieces before the horror , which would overwhelm us if we had clear , conscious thought -- it has awakened in us the sense of comradeship , so that we escape the abyss of solitude -- it has lent us the indifference of wild creatures , so that in spite of all , we perceive the positive in every moment , and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness . ]
#1162 | T: 111 | I: 17 | [ i think of nothing but this : that fellow there must know : gaaas -- gaaas -- i call , i lean toward him , i swipe at him with the satchel , he doesn ' t see -- once again , again -- he merely ducks -- it ' s a recruit -- i look at kat desperately , he has his mask on -- i pull out mine , too , my helmet falls to one side , it slips over my face , i reach the man , his satchel is on the side nearest me , i seize the mask , pull it over his head , he understands , i let go and with a jump drop into the shell - hole . ]
#31 | T: 111 | I: 21 | [ he sits down to eat as thin as a grasshopper and gets up as big as a bug in the family way ; haie westhus , of the same age , a peat - digger , who can easily hold a ration - loaf in his hand and say : guess what i ' ve got in my fist ; then detering , a peasant , who thinks of nothing but his farm - yard and his wife ; and finally stanislaus katczinsky , the leader of our group , shrewd , cunning , and hard - bitten , forty years of age , with a face of the soil , blue eyes , bent shoulders , and a remarkable nose for dirty weather , good food , and soft jobs . ]
#2262 | T: 109 | I: 8 | [ we show them how to take cover from aircraft , how to simulate a dead man when one is overrun in an attack , how to time hand - grenades so that they explode half a second before hitting the ground ; we teach them to fling themselves into holes as quick as lightning before the shells with instantaneous fuses ; we show them how to clean up a trench with a handful of bombs ; we explain the difference between the fuse - length of the enemy bombs and our own ; we put them wise to the sound of gas shells ; -- show them all the tricks that can save them from death . ]
#2007 | T: 102 | I: 11 | [ the brown earth , the torn , blasted earth , with a greasy shine under the sun ' s rays ; the earth is the background of this restless , gloomy world of automatons , our gasping is the scratching of a quill , our lips are dry , our heads are debauched with stupor -- thus we stagger forward , and into our pierced and shattered souls bores the torturing image of the brown earth with the greasy sun and the convulsed and dead soldiers , who lie there -- " it can ' t be helped -- who cry and clutch at our legs as we spring away over them . ]
#2266 | T: 98 | I: 9 | [ we see men living with their skulls blown open ; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off , they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell - hole ; a lance - corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him ; another goes to the dressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines ; we see men without mouths , without jaws , without faces ; we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death . ]
#2804 | T: 97 | I: 13 | [ when i see them here , in their rooms , in their offices , about their occupations , i feel an irresistible attraction in it , i would like to be here too and forget the war ; but also it repels me , it is so narrow , how can that fill a man ' s life , he ought to smash it to bits ; how can they do it , while out at the front the splinters are whining over the shell - holes and the star - shells go up , the wounded are carried back on waterproof sheets and comrades crouch in the trenches . ]
#4645 | T: 95 | I: 12 | [ we do not see the guns that bombard us ; the attacking lines of the enemy infantry are men like ourselves ; but these tanks are machines , their caterpillars run on as endless as the war , they are annihilation , they roll without feeling into the craters , and climb up again without stopping , a fleet of roaring , smoke - belching armour - clads , invulnerable steel beasts squashing the dead and the wounded -- we shrivel up in our thin skin before them , against their colossal weight our arms are sticks of straw , and our hand - grenades matches . ]
#4620 | T: 94 | I: 11 | [ the latrine poles are always densely crowded ; the people at home ought to be shown these grey , yellow , miserable , wasted faces here , these bent figures from whose bodies the colic wrings out the blood , and who with lips trembling and distorted with pain , grin at one another and say : " it is not much sense pulling up one ' s trousers again -- " our artillery is fired out , it has too few shells and the barrels are so worn that they shoot uncertainly , and scatter so widely as even to fall on ourselves . ]
#2590 | T: 88 | I: 15 | [ i hold them as tight as i can , but i cannot take another step , the staircase fades before my eyes , i support myself with the butt of my rifle against my feet and clench my teeth fiercely , but i cannot speak a word , my sister ' s call has made me powerless , i can do nothing , i struggle to make myself laugh , to speak , but no word comes , and so i stand on the steps , miserable , helpless , paralysed , and against my will the tears run down my cheeks . ]
#3687 | T: 87 | I: 8 | [ this dead man is bound up with my life , therefore i must do everything , promise everything in order to save myself ; i swear blindly that i mean to live only for his sake and his family , with wet lips i try to placate him -- and deep down in me lies the hope that i may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even get out of this ; it is a little stratagem : if only i am allowed to escape , then i will see to it . ]
#2574 | T: 80 | I: 6 | [ here we have often sat -- how long ago it is -- ; we have passed over this bridge and breathed the cool , acid smell of the stagnant water ; we have leaned over the still water on this side of the lock , where the green creepers and weeds hang from the piles of the bridge ; -- and on hot days we rejoiced in the spouting foam on the other side of the lock and told tales about our school - teachers . ]
#4674 | T: 80 | I: 10 | [ still the campaign goes on -- the dying goes on -- " -- " summer of 1918 -- never has life in its niggardliness seemed to us so desirable as now ; - - the red poppies in the meadows round our billets , the smooth beetles on the blades of grass , the warm evenings in the cool , dim rooms , the black mysterious trees of the twilight , the stars and the flowing waters , dreams and long sleep - o life , life , life ! ]
#908 | T: 77 | I: 10 | [ when he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully , when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell - fire , then she is his only friend , his brother , his mother ; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security ; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live , to run , ten seconds of life ; receives him again and often for ever . ]
#2317 | T: 76 | I: 12 | [ kemmerich is dead , haie westhus is dying , they will have a job with hans kramer ' s body at the judgment day , piecing it together after a direct hit ; martens has no legs any more , meyer is dead , max is dead , beyer is dead , hammerling is dead , there are a hundred and twenty wounded men lying somewhere or other ; it is a damnable business , but what has it to do with us now -- we live . ]
#2092 | T: 74 | I: 5 | [ it was not any recognition of their beauty and their significance that attracted us , but the communion , the feeling of a comradeship with the things and events of our existence , which cut us off and made the world of our parents a thing incomprehensible to us -- for then we surrendered ourselves to events and were lost in them , and the least little thing was enough to carry us down the stream of eternity . ]
#4516 | T: 74 | I: 6 | [ it is a great brotherhood , which adds something of the good - fellowship of the folk - song , of the feeling of solidarity of convicts , and of the desperate loyalty to one another of men condemned to death , to a condition of life arising out of the midst of danger , out of the tension and forlornness of death -- seeking in a wholly unpathetic way a fleeting enjoyment of the hours as they come . ]
#2841 | T: 74 | I: 8 | [ the room shall speak , it must catch me up and hold me , i want to feel that i belong here , i want to hearken and know when i go back to the front that the war will sink down , be drowned utterly in the great home - coming tide , know that it will then be past for ever , and not gnaw us continually , that it will have none but an outward power over us . ]
#902 | T: 73 | I: 8 | [ when kat stands in front of the hut and says : " there ' ll be a bombardment , " that is merely his own opinion ; but if he says it here , then the sentence has the sharpness of a bayonet in the moonlight , it cuts clean through the thought , it thrusts nearer and speaks to this unknown tiling that is awakened in us , a dark meaning -- " there ' ll be a bombardment . ]
#3450 | T: 73 | I: 8 | [ in whirling confusion my thoughts hum in my brain -- i hear the warning voice of my mother , i see the russians with the flowing beards leaning against the wire fence , i have a bright picture of a canteen with stools , of a cinema in valenciennes ; tormented , terrified , in my imagination i see the grey , implacable muzzle of a rifle which moves noiselessly before me whichever way i try to turn my head . ]
#1147 | T: 73 | I: 19 | [ with one lunge , i shoot as flat as a fish over the ground ; there it whistles again , quickly i crouch together , claw for cover , feel something on the left , shove in beside it , it gives way , i groan , the earth leaps , the blast thunders in my ears , i creep under the yielding thing , cover myself with it , draw it over me , it is wood , cloth , cover , cover , miserable cover against the whizzing splinters . ]
#2918 | T: 71 | I: 8 | [ now , in skirmishing the squad leader has always to keep twenty paces in front of his squad ; if the order comes " on the march , about turn , " the line of skirmishers simply turns about , but the squad leader , who now finds himself suddenly twenty paces in the rear of the line , has to rush up at the double and take his position again twenty paces in front of the squad . ]
#2803 | T: 69 | I: 11 | [ they understand of course , they agree , they may even feel it so too , but only with words , only with words , yes , that is it -- they feel it , but always with only half of themselves , the rest of their being is taken up with other things , they are so divided in themselves that none feels it with his whole essence ; i cannot even say myself exactly what i mean . ]
#3464 | T: 68 | I: 9 | [ i wage a wild and senseless fight , i want to get out of the hollow and yet slide back into it again ; i say " you must , it is your comrades , it is not an idiotic command , " and again : " what does it matter to me , i have only one life to lose -- " that is the result of all this leave , i plead in extenuation . ]
#1691 | T: 68 | I: 12 | [ i love him , his shoulders , his angular , stooping figure - - and at the same time i see behind him woods and stars , and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace , to me , a soldier in big boots , belt , and knapsack , taking the road that lies before him under the high heaven , quickly forgetting and seldom sorrowful , for ever pressing on under the wide night sky . ]
#1982 | T: 67 | I: 9 | [ the blast of the hand - grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs ; crouching like cats we run on , overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along , that fills us with ferocity , turns us into thugs , into murderers , into god only knows what devils ; this wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life , seeking and fighting for nothing but our deliverance . ]
#2073 | T: 66 | I: 3 | [ they are soundless apparitions that speak to me , with looks and gestures silently , without any word -- and it is the alarm of their silence that forces me to lay hold of my sleeve and my rifle lest i should abandon myself to the liberation and allurement in which my body would dilate and gently pass away into the still forces that lie behind these things . ]
#2253 | T: 66 | I: 13 | [ we see time pass in the colourless faces of the dying , we cram food into us , we run , we throw , we shoot , we kill , we lie about , we are feeble and spent , and nothing supports us but the knowledge that there are still feebler , still more spent , still more helpless ones there who , with staring eyes , look upon us as gods that escape death many times . ]
#3120 | T: 65 | I: 4 | [ with us food is pretty scarce and none too good at that -- turnips cut into six pieces and boiled in water , and unwashed carrot tops -- mouldy potatoes are tit - bits , and the chief luxury is a thin rice soup in which float little bits of beef - sinew , but these are cut up so small that they take a lot of finding . ]
#4636 | T: 65 | I: 7 | [ " a fellow with a wooden leg comes up before him , the staff surgeon again says al -- " and then , " kat raises his voice , " the fellow says to him : ' i already have a wooden leg , but when i go back again and they shoot off my head , then i will get a wooden head made and become a staff surgeon ' . ]
#26 | T: 64 | I: 8 | [ at the head of the queue of course were the hungriest -- little albert kropp , the clearest thinker among us and therefore only a lance - corporal ; müller , who still carries his school textbooks with him , dreams of examinations , and during a bombardment mutters propositions in physics ; leer , who wears a full beard and has a preference for the girls from officers ' brothels . ]
#3338 | T: 64 | I: 8 | [ " yes , well now , " pursues albert , and i see that he means to drive me into a corner , " but our professors and parsons and newspapers say that we are the only ones that are right , and let ' s hope so ; -- but the french professors and parsons and newspapers say that the right is on their side , now what about that ? ]
#1515 | T: 64 | I: 9 | [ " " when i think about it , albert , " i say after a while rolling over on my back , " when i hear the word ' peace - time , ' it goes to my head : and if it really came , i think i would do some unimaginable thing -- something , you know , that it ' s worth having lain here in the muck for . ]
#3476 | T: 64 | I: 10 | [ i am no longer a shuddering speck of existence , alone in the darkness ; -- i belong to them and they to me ; we all share the same fear and the same life , we are nearer than lovers , in a simpler , a harder way ; i could bury my face in them , in these voices , these words that have saved me and will stand by me . ]
#4814 | T: 63 | I: 4 | [ and men will not understand us -- for the generation that grew up before us , though it has passed these years with us already had a home and a calling ; now it will return to its old occupations , and the war will be forgotten -- and the generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside . ]
#1363 | T: 63 | I: 8 | [ his thoughts still linger over the clear evenings in autumn , the sundays in the heather , the village bells , the afternoons and evenings with the servant girls , the fried bacon and barley , the care - free hours in the ale - house -- he can ' t part with all these dreams so abruptly ; he merely growls : " what silly questions you do ask . ]
#3926 | T: 62 | I: 4 | [ we scatter and fling ourselves down on the ground , but at that moment i feel the instinctive alertness leave me which hitherto has always made me do unconsciously the right thing under fire ; the thought leaps up with a terrible throttling fear : " you are lost " -- and the next moment a blow sweeps like a whip over my left leg . ]
#2210 | T: 62 | I: 8 | [ their pale turnip faces , their pitiful clenched hands , the fine courage of these poor devils , the desperate charges and attacks made by the poor brave wretches , who are so terrified that they dare not cry out loudly , but with battered chests , with torn bellies , arms and legs only whimper softly for their mothers and cease as soon as one looks at them . ]
#3675 | T: 62 | I: 10 | [ i gather them up and want to put them back again , but the strain i am under , the uncertainty , the hunger , the danger , these hours with the dead man have made me desperate , i want to hasten the relief , to intensify and to end the torture , as one strikes an unendurably painful hand against the trunk of a tree , regardless of everything . ]
#3108 | T: 61 | I: 6 | [ now the stems gleam purest white , and between them airy and silken , hangs the pastel - green of the leaves ; the next moment all changes to an opalescent blue , as the shivering breezes pass down from the heights and touch the green lightly away ; and again in one place it deepens almost to black as a cloud passes over the sun . ]
#2318 | T: 61 | I: 7 | [ if it were possible for us to save them , then it would be seen how much we cared -- we would have a shot at it though we went under ourselves ; for we can be damned quixotic when we like ; fear we do not know much about -- terror of death , yes ; but that is a different matter , that is physical . ]
#2487 | T: 61 | I: 8 | [ but then i feel the lips of the little brunette and press myself against them , my eyes close , i want it all to fall from me , war and terror and grossness , in order to awaken young and happy ; i think of the picture of the girl on the poster and , for a moment , believe that my life depends on winning her . ]
#3542 | T: 61 | I: 9 | [ just as i am about to turn round a little , something heavy stumbles , and with a crash a body falls over me into the shell - hole , slips down , and lies across me i do not think at all , i make no decision -- i strike madly home , and feel only how the body suddenly convulses , then becomes limp , and collapses . ]
#2322 | T: 60 | I: 8 | [ the terror of the front sinks deep down when we turn our backs upon it ; we make grim , coarse jests about it , when a man dies , then we say he has nipped off his turd , and so we speak of everything ; that keeps us from going mad ; as long as we take it that way we maintain our own resistance . ]
#2933 | T: 59 | I: 6 | [ " it amazes me that kantorek does not explode with a bang , especially when , during physical exercises , mittelstaedt copies him to perfection , seizing him by the seat of his trousers as he is pulling himself up on the horizontal bar so that he can just raise his chin above the beam , and then starts to give him good advice . ]
#820 | T: 59 | I: 8 | [ it was a wonderful picture : himmelstoss on the ground ; haie bending over him with a fiendish grin and his mouth open with bloodlust , himmelstoss ' s head on his knees ; then the convulsed striped drawers , the knock knees , executing at every blow most original movements in the lowered breeches , and towering over them like a woodcutter the indefatigable tjaden . ]
#2027 | T: 59 | I: 9 | [ the next throw whizzes obliquely over the corner and clears a passage ; as we run past we toss handfuls down into the dug - outs , the earth shudders , it crashes , smokes and groans , we stumble over slippery lumps of flesh , over yielding bodies ; i fall into an open belly on which lies a clean , new officer ' s cap . ]
#358 | T: 59 | I: 10 | [ with our young , awakened eyes we saw that the classical conception of the fatherland held by our teachers resolved itself here into a renunciation of personality such as one would not ask of the meanest servants -- salutes , springing to attention , parade - marches , presenting arms , right wheel , left wheel , clicking the heels , insults , and a thousand pettifogging details . ]
#371 | T: 58 | I: 2 | [ i have kneaded a pair of prehistoric boots that were as hard as iron for twenty hours -- with intervals of course -- until they became as soft as butter and not even himmelstoss could find anything more to do to them ; under his orders i have scrubbed out the corporals ' mess with a tooth - brush . ]
#2575 | T: 58 | I: 6 | [ i pass over the bridge , i look right and left ; the water is as full of weeds as ever , and it still shoots over in gleaming arches ; in the tower - building laundresses still stand with bare arms as they used to over the clean linen , and the heat from the ironing pours out through the open windows . ]
#3665 | T: 58 | I: 9 | [ " i will write to your wife , " i say hastily to the dead man , " i will write to her , she must hear it from me , i will tell her everything i have told you , she shall not suffer , i will help her , and your parents too , and your child -- " his tunic is half open . ]
#4638 | T: 57 | I: 5 | [ there may be good doctors , and there are , lots of them ; all the same , every soldier some time during his hundreds of inspections falls into the clutches of one of these countless hero - grabbers who pride themselves on changing as many c 3 ' s and b 3 ' s as possible into al ' s . ]
#2836 | T: 57 | I: 6 | [ the breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books , shall fill me again , melt the heavy , dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future , the quick joy in the world of thought , it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth . ]
#2328 | T: 57 | I: 11 | [ the days , the weeks , the years out here shall come back again , and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us , our heads shall be clear , we shall have a purpose , and so we shall march , our dead comrades beside us , the years at the front behind us : -- against whom , against whom ? ]
#1807 | T: 56 | I: 4 | [ the sharpened spade is a more handy and many - sided weapon ; not only can it be used for jabbing a man under the chin , but it is much better for striking with because of its greater weight ; and if one hits between the neck and shoulder it easily cleaves as far down as the chest . ]
#1979 | T: 56 | I: 5 | [ it is not against men that we fling our bombs , what do we know of men in this moment when death is hunting us down -- now , for the first time in three days we can see his face , now for the first time in three days we can oppose him ; we feel a mad anger . ]
#4533 | T: 56 | I: 7 | [ in the outward form of our life we are hardly distinguishable from bushmen ; but whereas the latter can be so always , because they are so truly , and at best may develop further by exertion of their spiritual forces , with us it is the reverse ; -- our inner forces are not exerted toward regeneration , but toward degeneration . ]
#2523 | T: 56 | I: 9 | [ albert sits beside me and smokes , he is cheerful , we have always been together ; -- opposite squats kat , with his drooping shoulders , his broad thumb , and calm voice -- müller with the projecting teeth and the booming laugh ; tjaden with his mousey eyes ; -- leer who has grown a full beard and looks at least forty . ]
#2561 | T: 55 | I: 3 | [ the field swings round as the train encircles it , and the intervals between the trees diminish ; the trees become a block and for a moment i see one only -- then they reappear from behind the foremost tree and stand out a long line against the sky until they are hidden by the first houses . ]
#1234 | T: 55 | I: 5 | [ i say to the youngster who looks at us fixedly : " we ' re going for a stretcher now -- " then he opens his mouth and whispers : " stay here -- " " we ' ll be back again soon , " says kat , " we are only going to get a stretcher for you . ]
#2636 | T: 55 | I: 6 | [ i go and fetch my pack to the bedside and turn out the things i have brought -- a whole edamer cheese , that kat provided me with , two loaves of army bread , three - quarters of a pound of butter , two tins of livered sausage , a pound of dripping and a little bag of rice . ]
#3609 | T: 55 | I: 9 | [ but when i begin to cut the shirt the eyes open once more and the cry is in them again and the demented expression , so that i must close them , press them shut and whisper : " i want to help you , comrade , camerade , camerade , camerade -- " eagerly repeating the word , to make him understand . ]
#2249 | T: 54 | I: 7 | [ our faces are encrusted , our thoughts are devastated , we are weary to death ; when the attack comes we shall have to strike many of the men with our fists to waken them and make them come with us -- our eyes are burnt , our hands are torn , our knees bleed , our elbows are raw . ]
#4740 | T: 54 | I: 7 | [ " i am very miserable , it is impossible that kat -- kat my friend , kat with the drooping shoulders and the poor , thin moustache , kat , whom i know as i know no other man , kat with whom i have shared these years -- it is impossible that perhaps i shall not see kat again . ]
#1481 | T: 53 | I: 3 | [ at school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain , nor how a fire could be made with wet wood -- nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn ' t get jammed , as it does in the ribs . ]
#3150 | T: 53 | I: 3 | [ the peasants wrap up their booty with the utmost solemnity , and then get out their big pocket knives , and slowly and deliberately cut off a slice of bread for themselves from their supply and with every mouthful take a piece of the good tough sausage and so reward themselves with a good feed . ]
#524 | T: 53 | I: 5 | [ this is the most disturbing and hardest parting that i ever have seen , although it was pretty bad too with tiedjen , who called for his mother -- a big bear of a fellow who , with wild eyes full of terror , held off the doctor from his bed with a dagger until he collapsed . ]
#4527 | T: 53 | I: 5 | [ in the quiet hours when the puzzling reflection of former days like a blurred mirror , projects beyond me the figure of my present existence , i often sit over against myself , as before a stranger , and wonder how the unnameable active principle that calls itself to life has adapted itself even to this form . ]
#1352 | T: 53 | I: 7 | [ " in the army in peace - time you ' ve nothing to trouble about , " he goes on , " your food ' s found every day , or else you kick up a row ; you ' ve a bed , every week clean underwear like a perfect gent , you do your non - com . ]
#3180 | T: 53 | I: 7 | [ my heart beats fast : this is the aim , the great , the sole aim , that i have thought of in the trenches ; that i have looked for as the only possibility of existence after this annihilation of all human feeling ; this is a task that will make life afterward worthy of these hideous years . ]
#4817 | T: 53 | I: 11 | [ it cannot be that it has gone , the yearning that made our blood unquiet , the unknown , the perplexing , the oncoming things , the thousand faces of the future , the melodies from dreams and from books , the whispers and divinations of women ; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment , in despair , in brothels . ]
#1199 | T: 52 | I: 3 | [ i wait some seconds -- he has not collapsed -- he looks around and makes a few paces -- rattling in my throat i tear my mask off too and fall down , the air streams into me like cold water , my eyes are bursting the wave sweeps over me and extinguishes me . ]
#2612 | T: 52 | I: 5 | [ " i am going to get up a little to - day , " she says and turns to my sister , who is continually running to the kitchen to watch that the food does not burn : " and put out that jar of preserved whortleberries -- you like that , don ' t you ? ]
#1974 | T: 52 | I: 8 | [ i raise my hand , but i cannot throw into those strange eyes ; for one moment the whole slaughter whirls like a circus round me , and these two eyes alone are motionless ; then the head rises up , a hand , a movement , and my hand - grenade flies through the air and into him . ]
#372 | T: 51 | I: 3 | [ kropp and i were given the job of clearing the barrack - square of snow with a hand - broom and a dust - pan , and we would have gone on till we were frozen had not a lieutenant accidentally appeared who sent us off , and hauled himmelstoss over the coals . ]
#2560 | T: 51 | I: 11 | [ but now the sun streams through the world , dissolving everything in its golden - red light , the train swings round one curve and then another ; - - far away , in a long line one behind the other , stand the poplars , unsubstantial , swaying and dark , fashioned out of shadow , light , and desire . ]
#380 | T: 50 | I: 1 | [ i have run eight times from the top floor of the barracks down to the courtyard in my shirt at two o ' clock in the morning because my drawers projected three inches beyond the edge of the stool on which one had to stack all one ' s things . ]
#2206 | T: 50 | I: 6 | [ modern trench - warfare demands knowledge and experience ; a man must have a feeling for the contours of the ground , an ear for the sound and character of the shells , must be able to decide beforehand where they will drop , how they will burst , and how to shelter from them . ]
#2208 | T: 49 | I: 4 | [ they get killed simply because they hardly can tell shrapnel from high - explosive , they are mown down because they are listening anxiously to the roar of the big coal - boxes falling in the rear , and miss the light , piping whistle of the low spreading daisy - cutters . ]
#3659 | T: 49 | I: 6 | [ why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us , that your mothers are just as anxious as ours , and that we have the same fear of death , and the same dying and the same agony -- forgive me , comrade ; how could you be my enemy ? ]
#4148 | T: 49 | I: 7 | [ as the sister comes back , i blow myself out , breathe in short gasps , goggle at her with vacant eyes , toss about restlessly , and mutter in a whisper : " i can ' t bear it any longer -- " -- " she notes me down on a slip of paper . ]
#2119 | T: 48 | I: 2 | [ he must have been badly hit -- one of those nasty wounds neither so severe that they exhaust the body at once and a man dreams on in a half - swoon , nor so light that a man endures the pain in the hope of becoming well again . ]
#2554 | T: 48 | I: 10 | [ smooth meadows , fields , farm - yards ; a solitary team moves against the sky - line along the road that runs parallel to the horizon -- a barrier , before which peasants stand waiting , girls waving , children playing on the embankment , roads , leading into the country , smooth roads without artillery . ]
#3854 | T: 48 | I: 10 | [ i am almost in , there is a rising screech , i bound , i run like a deer , sweep round the wall , fragments clatter against the concrete , i tumble down the cellar steps , my elbows are skinned , but i have not lost a single pancake , nor even upset the plate . ]
#919 | T: 47 | I: 3 | [ a man is walking along without thought or heed ; -- suddenly he throws himself down on the ground and a storm of fragments flies harmlessly over him ; -- yet he cannot remember either to have heard the shell coming or to have thought of flinging himself down . ]
#2923 | T: 47 | I: 3 | [ kantorek can hardly expect anything else from mittelstaedt , for he once messed up the latter ' s chance of promotion , and mittelstaedt would be a big fool not to make the best of such a good opportunity as this before he goes back to the front again . ]
#1271 | T: 47 | I: 4 | [ it falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up in the line , on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip ; it falls on kemmerich ' s grave ; it falls in our hearts . ]
#1935 | T: 47 | I: 4 | [ i start after the one who escapes and wonder whether to shoot him in the leg -- then it shrieks again , i fling myself down and when i stand up the wall of the trench is plastered with smoking splinters , lumps of flesh , and bits of uniform . ]
#1682 | T: 47 | I: 5 | [ we sit on the edge of it crouching in danger , the grease drips from our hands , in our hearts we are close to one another , and the hour is like the room : flecked over with the lights and shadows of our feelings cast by a quiet fire . ]
#2839 | T: 47 | I: 5 | [ i look out of the window ; -- beyond the picture of the sunlit street appears a range of hills , distant and light ; it changes to a clear day in autumn , and i sit by the fire with kat and albert and eat potatoes baked in their skins . ]
#4470 | T: 47 | I: 6 | [ lewandowski can only lie on his side , so one of us props a couple of pillows against his side , albert gets the child to hold , we all turn round a bit , the black mantilla disappears under the bedclothes , we make a great clatter and play skat noisily . ]
#669 | T: 47 | I: 7 | [ if for one hour in a year something eatable were to be had in some one place only , within that hour , as if moved by a vision , he would put on his cap , go out and walk directly there , as though following a compass , and find it . ]
#3134 | T: 47 | I: 7 | [ their backs , their necks are bent , their knees sag , their heads droop as they stretch out their hands and beg in the few words of german that they know -- beg with those soft , deep , musical voices , that are like warm stoves and cosy rooms at home . ]
#3521 | T: 47 | I: 8 | [ it hammers in my forehead ; at once , stab him clean through the throat , so that he cannot call out ; that ' s the only way ; he will be just as frightened as i am ; when in terror we fall upon one another , then i must be first . ]
#2913 | T: 46 | I: 2 | [ and this is the object before whom we used to stand in anguish as he sat up there enthroned at his desk , spearing at us with his pencil for our mistakes in those irregular french verbs with which afterwards we made so little headway in france . ]
#2463 | T: 46 | I: 4 | [ leer makes the gestures of eating , and then they come to life again and bring out plates and knives and fall to on the food , and they hold up every slice of livered sausage and admire it before they eat it , and we sit proudly by . ]
#1726 | T: 46 | I: 7 | [ again there is the lofty sky with the stars and the oncoming dawn , and i pass beneath it , a soldier with big boots and a full belly , a little soldier in the early morning -- but by my side , stooping and angular , goes kat , my comrade . ]
#3109 | T: 45 | I: 2 | [ and this shadow moves like a ghost through the dim trunks and rides far out over the moor to the sky -- then the birches stand out again like gay banners on white poles , with their red and gold patches of autumn - tinted leaves . ]
#2219 | T: 45 | I: 3 | [ some of them in a shell hole took off their masks too soon ; they did not know that the gas lies longest in the hollows ; when they saw others on top without masks they pulled theirs off too and swallowed enough to scorch their lungs . ]
#2778 | T: 45 | I: 3 | [ you do your duty , you risk your lives , that deserves the highest honour -- every man of you ought to have the iron cross -- but first of all the enemy line must be broken through in flanders and then rolled up from the top . ]
#174 | T: 45 | I: 4 | [ and perhaps more of us thought as he did , but no one could very well stand out , because at that time even one ' s parents were ready with the word " coward " ; no one had the vaguest idea what we were in for . ]
#3649 | T: 45 | I: 4 | [ but i will get no further that way ; for that is the fate of all of us : if kemmerich ' s leg had been six inches to the right : if haie westhus had bent his back three inches further forward -- *** the silence spreads . ]
#2343 | T: 45 | I: 5 | [ " just look at those thin shoes though , she couldn ' t march many miles in those , " i say , and then begin to feel silly , for it is absurd to stand in front of a picture like this and think of nothing but marching . ]
#2565 | T: 45 | I: 5 | [ i repeat to myself the name of the street that we cross over -- bremer - strasse -- bremerstrasse -- below there are cyclists , lorries , men ; it is a grey street and a grey subway ; -- it affects me as though it were my mother . ]
#2483 | T: 45 | I: 6 | [ how various is a face ; but an hour ago it was strange and it is now touched with a tenderness that comes , not from it , but from out of the night , the world and the blood , all these things seem to shine in it together . ]
#2533 | T: 45 | I: 6 | [ yes , leer is right : if i were going up to the front , then she would have called me again " pauvre garã § on " ; but merely going on leave -- she does not want to hear about that , that is not nearly so interesting . ]
#914 | T: 45 | I: 7 | [ our being , almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm , streams back through our hands from thee , and we , thy redeemed ones , bury ourselves in thee , and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope bite into thee with our lips ! ]
#3546 | T: 45 | I: 7 | [ i want to stop his mouth , stuff it with earth , stab him again , he must be quiet , he is betraying me ; now at last i regain control of myself , but have suddenly become so feeble that i cannot any more lift my hand against him . ]
#2549 | T: 45 | I: 8 | [ it glides past the western windows with its villages , their thatched roofs like caps , pulled over the whitewashed , half - timbered houses , its corn - fields , gleaming like mother - of - pearl in the slanting light , its orchards , its barns and old lime trees . ]
#2083 | T: 44 | I: 2 | [ they appeared in the soldiers ' songs which we sang as we marched between the glow of the dawn and the black silhouettes of the forests to drill on the moor , they were a powerful remembrance that was in us and came from us . ]
#2369 | T: 44 | I: 3 | [ who isn ' t smutty is no soldier ; it merely does not suit us at the moment , so we edge away and march off to the de - lousing station with the same feeling as if it were a swell gentlemen ' s outfitters . ]
#379 | T: 44 | I: 4 | [ together with kropp , westhus , and tjaden i have stood at attention in a hard frost without gloves for a quarter of an hour at a stretch , while himmelstoss watched for the slightest movement of our bare fingers on the steel barrel of the rifle . ]
#4518 | T: 44 | I: 4 | [ it is this , for example , that makes tjaden spoon down his ham - and - pea soup in such tearing haste when an enemy attack is reported , simply because he cannot be sure that in an hour ' s time he will be alive . ]
#4437 | T: 44 | I: 5 | [ everyone has already read it a dozen times , the post - marks have been examined heaven knows how often , the address is hardly legible any longer for spots of grease and thumb - marks , and in the end what is sure to happen , happens . ]
#4442 | T: 44 | I: 5 | [ he had hoped to get permission to go out when his old woman came ; for obviously seeing is all very well , but when a man gets his wife again after such a long time , if at all possible , a man wants something else besides . ]
#531 | T: 44 | I: 6 | [ " he sniffs : " how should i know anything about it , i ' ve amputated five legs to - day " ; he shoves me away , says to the hospital - orderly " you see to it , " and hurries off to the operating room . ]
#4634 | T: 44 | I: 6 | [ " kat tells a story that has travelled the whole length of the front from the vosges to flanders ; -- of the staff surgeon who reads the names on the list , and when a man comes before him , without looking up , says : " al . ]
#3586 | T: 44 | I: 8 | [ the body is still perfectly still , without a sound , the gurgle has ceased , but the eyes cry out , yell , all the life is gathered together in them for one tremendous effort to flee , gathered together there in a dreadful terror of death , of me . ]
#3444 | T: 43 | I: 2 | [ here i am alone and almost helpless in the dark - - perhaps two other eyes have been watching me for a long while from another shell - hole in front of me , and a bomb lies ready to blow me to pieces . ]
#2056 | T: 43 | I: 3 | [ the parachute - lights soar upwards -- and i see a picture , a summer evening , i am in the cathedral cloister and look at the tall rose trees that bloom in the middle of the little cloister garden where the monks lie buried . ]
#2484 | T: 43 | I: 4 | [ the objects in the room are touched by it and transformed , they become isolated , and i feel almost awed at the sight of my clear skin when the light of the lamp falls upon it and the cool , brown hand passes over it . ]
#946 | T: 43 | I: 5 | [ from ahead come warnings : " look out , deep shell - hole on the left " -- " mind , trenches " -- our eyes peer out , our feet and our sticks feel in front of us before they take the weight of the body . ]
#1692 | T: 43 | I: 5 | [ a little soldier and a clear voice , and if anyone were to caress him he would hardly understand , this soldier with the big boots and the shut heart , who marches because he is wearing big boots , and has forgotten all else but marching . ]
#2311 | T: 43 | I: 5 | [ but so long as we have to stay here in the field , the front - line days , when they are past , sink down in us like a stone ; they are too grievous for us to be able to reflect on them at once . ]
#3524 | T: 43 | I: 5 | [ that makes me savage with fury , all it needs now is to be killed by our own shells ; i curse and grind my teeth in the mud ; it is a raving frenzy ; in the end all i can do is groan and pray . ]
#2240 | T: 42 | I: 2 | [ " his eye becomes glassy , i knock his head against the wall -- " you cow " -- i kick him in the ribs -- " you swine " -- i push him toward the door and shove him out head first . ]
#3224 | T: 42 | I: 4 | [ my mother has always been sickly ; and though she has only gone to the hospital when she has been compelled to , it has cost a great deal of money , and my father ' s life has been practically given up to it . ]
#1850 | T: 42 | I: 5 | [ one lies down in silence in the corner and eats , the other , an older man of the new draught , sobs ; twice he has been flung over the parapet by the blast of the explosions without getting any more than shell - shock . ]
#2090 | T: 42 | I: 5 | [ but it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade ; those are his features , it is his face , and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory ; but the man himself it is not . ]
#2798 | T: 42 | I: 5 | [ for they all come back to the same thing , how badly it goes and how well it goes ; one thinks it is this way , another that ; and yet they are always absorbed in the things that go to make up their existence . ]
#4583 | T: 42 | I: 5 | [ it is not easy to surrender , fog and smoke hang over us , no one would recognise that we wanted to give ourselves up , and perhaps we don ' t want to , a man doesn ' t even know himself at such moments . ]
#4659 | T: 42 | I: 5 | [ when he sees that we cannot hit them because under the sharp fire we have to think too much about keeping under cover , he takes a rifle , crawls out of the hole , and lying down propped on his elbows , he takes aim . ]
#897 | T: 42 | I: 6 | [ the moment that the first shells whistle over and the air is rent with the explosions there is suddenly in our veins , in our hands , in our eyes a tense waiting , a watching , a heightening alertness , a strange sharpening of the senses . ]
#2214 | T: 42 | I: 6 | [ they wear grey coats and trousers and boots , but for most of them the uniform is far too big , it hangs on their limbs , their shoulders are too narrow , their bodies too slight ; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements . ]
#4815 | T: 42 | I: 6 | [ we will be superfluous even to ourselves , we will grow older , a few will adapt themselves , some others will merely submit , and most will be bewildered ; - - the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin . ]
#323 | T: 42 | I: 7 | [ we young men of twenty , however , have only our parents , and some , perhaps , a girl -- that is not much , for at our age the influence of parents is at its weakest and girls have not yet got a hold over us . ]
#4630 | T: 42 | I: 7 | [ there , if they do not amputate him , he sooner or later falls into the hands of one of those staff surgeons who , with the war service cross in his button - hole , says to him : " what , one leg a bit short ? ]
#2466 | T: 41 | I: 2 | [ the little brunette strokes my hair and says what all french women say : " la guerre -- grand malheur -- pauvres garã § ons -- " i hold her arm tightly and press my lips into the palm of her hand . ]
#1955 | T: 41 | I: 3 | [ no one would believe that in this howling waste there could still be men ; but steel helmets now appear on all sides out of the trench , and fifty yards from us a machine - gun is already in position and barking . ]
#4677 | T: 41 | I: 3 | [ summer of 1918 -- never was life in the line more bitter and more full of horror than in the hours of the bombardment , when the blanched faces lie in the dirt and the hands clutch at the one thought : no ! ]
#2770 | T: 41 | I: 4 | [ then he begins to expound just whereabouts in france the breakthrough must come , and turns to me : " now , shove ahead a bit out there with your everlasting trench warfare -- smash through the johnnies and then there will be peace . ]
#4203 | T: 41 | I: 4 | [ but a hospital inspector is just the same as a commissariat inspector , or any one else who wears a long sword and shoulder straps , but is really a clerk , and is never considered even by a recruit as a real officer . ]
#4445 | T: 41 | I: 4 | [ those of us who are already able to go out have told him of a couple of very good spots in the town , parks and squares , where he would not be disturbed ; one of us even knows of a little room . ]
#1184 | T: 41 | I: 5 | [ the coffin lid is loose and bursts open , we are easily able to pull it off , we toss the corpse out , it slides down to the bottom of the shell - hole , then we try to loosen the under - part . ]
#3170 | T: 41 | I: 7 | [ their life is obscure and guiltless ; -- if i could know more of them , what their names are , how they live , what they are waiting for , what are their burdens , then my emotion would have an object and might become sympathy . ]
#2006 | T: 41 | I: 8 | [ but we are swept forward again , powerless , madly savage and raging ; we will kill , for they are still our mortal enemies , their rifles and bombs are aimed against us , and if we don ' t destroy them , they will destroy us . ]
#4693 | T: 41 | I: 8 | [ the rifles are caked , the uniforms caked , everything is fluid and dissolved , the earth one dripping , soaked , oily mass in which lie yellow pools with red spiral streams of blood and into which the dead , wounded , and survivors slowly sink down . ]
#120 | T: 40 | I: 2 | [ we might perhaps have paid no particular attention to them had they not figured so large in our experience , nor been such novelties to our minds -- to the old hands they had long been a mere matter of course . ]
#686 | T: 40 | I: 3 | [ katczinsky won ' t budge from the opinion which as an old front - hog , he rhymes : give ' em all the same grub and all the same pay and the war would be over and done in a day . ]
#3639 | T: 40 | I: 3 | [ he looks as if he would have often have written to her ; -- she will still be getting mail from him -- to - morrow , in a week ' s time -- perhaps even a stray letter a month hence . ]
#1308 | T: 40 | I: 6 | [ he levies tribute on kropp ' s tin of beans , swallows some , then considers for a while and says : " you might get drunk first , of course , but then you ' d take the next train for home and mother . ]
#812 | T: 39 | I: 2 | [ he put himself in position with evident satisfaction , raised his arm like a signal - mast and his hand like a coal - shovel and fetched such a blow on the white sack as would have felled an ox . ]
#3173 | T: 39 | I: 3 | [ at some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows , and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world ' s condemnation and severest penalty fall , becomes our highest aim . ]
#2031 | T: 39 | I: 4 | [ no sooner do we know this than we dive into the nearest dug - outs , and with the utmost haste seize on whatever provisions we can see , especially the tins of corned beef and butter , before we clear out . ]
#2977 | T: 39 | I: 5 | [ " -- who drowns me in tears and calls out : " what are you there for at all , child , when you -- " -- " " -- who drops into a chair and wails : " did you see him ? ]
#3040 | T: 39 | I: 5 | [ i would like to weep and be comforted too , indeed i am little more than a child ; in the wardrobe still hang short , boy ' s trousers -- it is such a little time ago , why is it over ? ]
#2327 | T: 39 | I: 6 | [ and this i know : all these things that now , while we are still in the war , sink down in us like a stone , after the war shall waken again , and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death . ]
#3895 | T: 39 | I: 6 | [ " there is something itching under my foot ; kropp my man , catch that louse at once , " says leer , poking out his leg at him like a ballet girl , and albert drags him up the stairs by the foot . ]
#4101 | T: 39 | I: 6 | [ if she were an old woman , it might be easier to say what a man wants , but she is so very young , at the most twenty - five , it can ' t be done , i cannot possibly tell her . ]
#2477 | T: 39 | I: 7 | [ we have left our boots at the door , they have given us slippers instead , and now nothing remains to recall for me the assurance and self - confidence of the soldier ; no rifle , no belt , no tunic , no cap . ]
#22 | T: 38 | I: 2 | [ last night we moved back and settled down to get a good sleep for once : katczinsky is right when he says it would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little more sleep . ]
#418 | T: 38 | I: 3 | [ but by far the most important result was that it awakened in us a strong , practical sense of esprit de corps , which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war -- comradeship . ]
#2026 | T: 38 | I: 3 | [ haie strikes his spade into the neck of a gigantic frenchman and throws the first hand - grenade ; we duck behind a breastwork for a few seconds , then the straight bit of trench ahead of us is empty . ]
#3439 | T: 38 | I: 3 | [ and oddly enough they are often quite stupid ; for instance , both kat and kropp were once able to shoot down a black enemy patrol because the fellows in their enthusiasm for cigarettes smoked while they were creeping about . ]
#2795 | T: 38 | I: 4 | [ some of these people ask questions , some ask no questions , but one can see that the latter are proud of themselves for their silence ; they often say with a wise air that these things cannot be talked about . ]
#3328 | T: 38 | I: 5 | [ " you ' ve got a maggot in your brain , tjaden , just you run along to the latrine quick , and get your head clear , so that you don ' t talk like a two - year - old . ]
#4349 | T: 38 | I: 5 | [ he operates on you for flat feet , and there ' s no mistake , you don ' t have them any more ; you have club feet instead , and have to walk all the rest of your life on sticks . ]
#2482 | T: 38 | I: 6 | [ -- the words of this foreign tongue , that i hardly understand , they caress me to a quietness , in which the room grows dim , and dissolves in the half light , only the face above me lives and is clear . ]
#1330 | T: 38 | I: 8 | [ " " by jove , yes , " says haie , his face melting , " then i ' d grab some good buxom dame , some real kitchen wench with plenty to get hold of , you know , and jump straight into bed . ]
#760 | T: 37 | I: 2 | [ but you try to explain that to a black - smith or a labourer or a workman , you try to make that clear to a peasant -- and that ' s what most of them are here . ]
#1808 | T: 37 | I: 2 | [ the bayonet frequently jams on the thrust and then a man has to kick hard on the other fellow ' s belly to pull it out again ; and in the interval he may easily get one himself . ]
#357 | T: 37 | I: 3 | [ after three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents , our teachers , and the whole gamut of culture from plato to goethe . ]
#382 | T: 37 | I: 3 | [ at bayonet - practice i had constantly to fight with himmelstoss , i with a heavy iron weapon , whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue . ]
#385 | T: 37 | I: 3 | [ i became a past master on the parallel bars and excelled at physical jerks ; -- we have trembled at the mere sound of his voice , but this runaway post - horse never got the better of us . ]
#899 | T: 37 | I: 3 | [ it often seems to me as though it were the vibrating , shuddering air that with a noiseless leap springs upon us ; or as though the front itself emitted an electric current which awakened unknown nerve - centres . ]
#1236 | T: 37 | I: 3 | [ he whimpers like a child and plucks at us : " don ' t go away -- " kat looks around and whispers : " shouldn ' t we just take a revolver and put an end to it ? ]
#1087 | T: 37 | I: 4 | [ the last one props itself on its forelegs and drags itself round in a circle like a merry - go - round ; squatting , it drags round in circles on its stiffened forelegs , apparently its back is broken . ]
#3096 | T: 37 | I: 4 | [ in the evenings i generally go to the soldiers ' home , where the newspapers are laid out , but i do not read them ; still there is a piano there that i am glad enough to play on . ]
#3383 | T: 37 | I: 4 | [ " " but there are more lies told by the other side than by us , " say i ; " just think of those pamphlets the prisoners have on them , where it says that we eat belgian children . ]
#245 | T: 37 | I: 5 | [ they twist themselves into corkscrews and grow and grow , and with them the hair on the decaying skull , just like grass in a good soil , just like grass , how can it be possible -- müller leans over . ]
#1655 | T: 37 | I: 5 | [ then i hold my breath , whip up the revolver , it cracks , the dog leaps howling to one side , i make for the door of the shed and fall head over heels over one of the scuttering geese . ]
#2082 | T: 37 | I: 5 | [ in the barracks they called forth a rebellious , wild craving for their return ; for then they were still bound to us , we belonged to them and they to us , even though we were already absent from them . ]
#2844 | T: 37 | I: 5 | [ i implore them with my eyes : speak to me -- take me up -- take me , life of my youth -- you who are care - free , beautiful -- receive me again -- i wait , i wait . ]
#4060 | T: 37 | I: 6 | [ i look at her , she is young and crisp , spotless and neat , like everything here ; a man cannot realise that it isn ' t for officers only , and feels himself strange and in some way even alarmed . ]
#2261 | T: 36 | I: 1 | [ they must pick them out from the general din by their insect - like hum -- we explain to them that these are far more dangerous than the big ones that can be heard long beforehand . ]
#2118 | T: 36 | I: 2 | [ otherwise it is hard to understand why we cannot find him ; for it is only when a man has his mouth close to the ground that it is impossible to gauge the direction of his cry . ]
#257 | T: 36 | I: 3 | [ but as things are now it is a pity that they should stay here ; the orderlies will of course grab them as soon as he is dead , " won ' t you leave them with us ? ]
#809 | T: 36 | I: 3 | [ we seized the bed - cover , made a quick leap , threw it over his head from behind and pulled it round him so that he stood there in a white sack unable to raise his arms . ]
#1795 | T: 36 | I: 3 | [ in one way that is all to the good , for edamer is tasty -- but in another way it is vile , because the fat red balls have long been a sign of a bad time coming . ]
#2629 | T: 36 | I: 3 | [ i know well enough that the jar of whortleberries is the only one they have had for months , and that she has kept it for me ; and the somewhat stale cakes that she gives me too . ]
#4694 | T: 36 | I: 3 | [ the storm lashes us , out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child - like cries of the wounded , and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence . ]
#1503 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ " what we ' ll want is a private income , and then we ' ll be able to live by ourselves in a wood , " i say , but at once feel ashamed of this absurd idea . ]
#2288 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ " -- and waits and then says softly : " in squads -- " and then breaks off and is only able to finish : " second company -- " with difficulty : " second company -- march easy ! ]
#3165 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ but now they are quite apathetic and listless ; most of them do not masturbate any more , they are so feeble , though otherwise things come to such a pass that whole huts full of them do it . ]
#3391 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ and his opinion is quite typical , here one meets it time and again , and there is nothing with which one can properly counter it , because that is the limit of their comprehension of the factors involved . ]
#4818 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ here the trees show gay and golden , the berries of the rowan stand red among the leaves , country roads run white out to the sky line , and the canteens hum like beehives with rumours of peace . ]
#4243 | T: 36 | I: 5 | [ one wants his leg placed so , another so , a third wants water , a fourth wants her to shake his pillow ; -- in the end the buxom old body grumbled bad - temperedly and slammed the doors . ]
#4466 | T: 36 | I: 6 | [ the devil take all conventions , they were made for other times ; here lies the carpenter johann lewandowski , a soldier shot to a cripple , and there is his wife ; who knows when he will see her again ? ]
#4522 | T: 36 | I: 6 | [ here , on the borders of death , life follows an amazingly simple course , it is limited to what is most necessary , all else lies buried in gloomy sleep ; -- in that besides our primitiveness and our survival . ]
#2324 | T: 35 | I: 2 | [ it ' s all rot that they put in the war - news about the good humour of the troops , how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front - line . ]
#3825 | T: 35 | I: 2 | [ after ten minutes i get the knack of tossing the pan so that the pancakes which are done on one side sail up , turn in the air and are caught again as they come down . ]
#4417 | T: 35 | I: 2 | [ it must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out , these torture - chambers in their hundreds of thousands . ]
#21 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ but on the last day an astonishing number of english heavies opened up on us with high - explosive , drumming ceaselessly on our position , so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong . ]
#848 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ it can happen if it likes ; a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts , and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again . ]
#2314 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line , because that is the only thing which brings us through safely , so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting . ]
#2741 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ after i have been startled a couple of times in the street by the screaming of the tramcars , which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one , somebody taps me on the shoulder . ]
#2920 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ but no sooner has he arrived than the order " on the march , about turn , " comes again and he once more has to race at top speed another forty paces to the other side . ]
#3478 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ i shuffle along on all fours a bit farther , i keep track of my bearings , look around me and observe the distribution of the gunfire so as to be able to find my way back . ]
#4383 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ he gropes for the fork , seizes it and drives it with all his force against his heart , then he snatches up a shoe and strikes with it against the handle as hard as he can . ]
#4433 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ his wife has written to him from the little home in poland where she lives , telling him that she has saved up enough money to pay for the fare , and is coming to see him . ]
#4816 | T: 35 | I: 3 | [ but perhaps all this that i think is mere melancholy and dismay , which will fly away as the dust , when i stand once again beneath the poplars and listen to the rustling of their leaves . ]
#985 | T: 35 | I: 4 | [ i don ' t know whether it is morning or evening , i lie in the pale cradle of the twilight , and listen for soft words which will come , soft and near -- am i crying ? ]
#2061 | T: 35 | I: 4 | [ between the glowing columns of the cloister is the cool darkness that only churches have , and i stand there and wonder whether , when i am twenty , i shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love . ]
#787 | T: 35 | I: 5 | [ we had been allotted to one of the recently formed regiments , but were first to be sent back for equipment to the garrison , not to the reinforcement - depot , of course , but to another barracks . ]
#2914 | T: 35 | I: 5 | [ that is barely two years ago -- and now here stands territorial kantorek , the spell quite broken , with bent knees , arms like pothooks , unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig - out -- an impossible soldier . ]
#3711 | T: 35 | I: 5 | [ now , merely to avert any ill - luck , i babble mechanically : " i will fulfil everything , fulfil everything i have promised you - - " but already i know that i shall not do so . ]
#4106 | T: 35 | I: 5 | [ out there we say it in a single word , but here , to such a lady -- all at once he remembers his school days and finishes hastily : " he wants to leave the room , sister . ]
#4535 | T: 35 | I: 5 | [ and at night , waking out of a dream , overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions , a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support , how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness . ]
#937 | T: 35 | I: 6 | [ the column marches on , straight ahead , the figures resolve themselves into a block , individuals are no longer recognisable , the dark wedge presses onward , fantastically topped by the heads and weapons floating on the milky pool . ]
#3475 | T: 35 | I: 6 | [ they are more to me than life , these voices , they are more than motherliness and more than fear ; they are the strongest , most comforting thing there is anywhere : they are the voices of my comrades . ]
#20 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ it was fairly quiet on our sector , so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men . ]
#1925 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ this bombardment is too much for the poor devils , they have been sent straight from a recruiting - depot into a barrage that is enough to turn an old soldier ' s hair grey . ]
#2159 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ " tjaden especially can hardly contain himself ; he takes the largest of the rings in his hand and every now and then puts his leg through it to show how much slack there is . ]
#2921 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ in this way the squad has merely made the turn - about and a couple of paces , while the squad - leader dashes backwards and forwards like a fart on a curtain - pole . ]
#3239 | T: 34 | I: 2 | [ at eight o ' clock in the evening he will eat some miserable rubbish they get in exchange for their food tickets , then he will take a powder for his headache and work on . ]
#1779 | T: 34 | I: 3 | [ we cannot afford to throw the bread away , because then we should have nothing left to eat in the morning , so we carefully cut off the bits of bread that the animals have gnawed . ]
#2827 | T: 34 | I: 3 | [ my hands rest on the arms of the sofa ; now i make myself at home and draw up my legs so that i sit comfortably in the corner , in the arms of the sofa . ]
#2869 | T: 34 | I: 3 | [ so i go over to see mittelstaedt in the barracks , and we sit in his room ; there is an atmosphere about it that i do not like but with which i am quite familiar . ]
#3622 | T: 34 | I: 4 | [ kat and kropp and müller have experienced it already , when they have hit someone ; it happens to many , in hand - to - hand fighting especially -- but every gasp lays my heart bare . ]
#4604 | T: 34 | I: 4 | [ berger , who means to finish off the dog , is carried away with a wound in the pelvis , and one of the fellows who carry him gets a bullet in the leg while doing it . ]
#4826 | T: 34 | I: 4 | [ he fell in october 1918 , on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front , that the army report confined itself to the single sentence : all quiet on the western front . ]
#2336 | T: 34 | I: 5 | [ she is a lovely girl with a delicate nose , red lips , and slender legs , wonderfully clean and well cared for , she certainly baths twice a day and never has any dirt under her nails . ]
#2583 | T: 34 | I: 5 | [ it is the kitchen door that was opened , they are cooking potato - cakes , the house reeks of it , and to - day of course is saturday ; that will be my sister leaning over . ]
#3229 | T: 34 | I: 5 | [ they don ' t dare ask the price , but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it ; but the others , for whom it is not important , they settle the price first as a matter of course . ]
#3811 | T: 34 | I: 5 | [ in the kitchen is an immense fireplace with two ranges , pots , pans , and kettles -- everything , even to a stack of small chopped wood in an outhouse -- a regular cook ' s paradise . ]
#3149 | T: 33 | I: 1 | [ they hold the piece of bread or sausage right under the nose of the russian till he grows pale with greed and his eyes bulge and then he will give anything for it . ]
#1684 | T: 33 | I: 2 | [ formerly we should not have had a single thought in common -- now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison , are so intimate that we do not even speak . ]
#3584 | T: 33 | I: 2 | [ the body lies still , but in the eyes there is such an extraordinary expression of fright that for a moment i think they have power enough to carry the body off with them . ]
#114 | T: 33 | I: 3 | [ there were no doors and twenty men sat side by side as in a railway carriage , so that they could be reviewed all at one glance , for soldiers must always be under supervision . ]
#3196 | T: 33 | I: 3 | [ he stands up and plays , sometimes he has that absent expression which violinists get when they close their eyes ; or again he sways the instrument to the rhythm and smiles across to me . ]
#176 | T: 33 | I: 4 | [ they knew the war to be a misfortune , whereas those who were better off , and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be , were beside themselves with joy . ]
#653 | T: 33 | I: 4 | [ i ' m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert , in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat , dates , and wine . ]
#735 | T: 33 | I: 4 | [ for instance , if you train a dog to eat potatoes and then afterwards put a piece of meat in front of him , he ' ll snap at it , it ' s his nature . ]
#3309 | T: 33 | I: 4 | [ he stalks along the line , and i am really rather disappointed ; judging from his pictures i imagined him to be bigger and more powerfully built , and above all to have a thundering voice . ]
#4449 | T: 33 | I: 5 | [ the next afternoon his wife appears , a tousled little woman with anxious , quick eyes like a bird , in a sort of black crinkly mantilla with ribbons ; heaven knows where she inherited the thing . ]
#2548 | T: 33 | I: 6 | [ i lie down on many a station platform ; i stand before many a soup - kitchen ; i squat on many a bench ; -- then at last the landscape becomes disturbing , mysterious , and familiar . ]
#316 | T: 32 | I: 1 | [ two it is strange to think that at home in the drawer of my writing table there lies the beginning of a play called " saul " and a bundle of poems . ]
#2660 | T: 32 | I: 1 | [ 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 . ]
#3857 | T: 32 | I: 1 | [ we drink coffee until half - past six -- officer ' s coffee from the supply dump -- and smoke officer ' s cigars and cigarettes -- also from the supply dump . ]
#596 | T: 32 | I: 2 | [ " patronisingly he gives the youngster a portion and says : " next time you come with your mess - tin have a cigar or a chew of tobacco in your other hand . ]
#1284 | T: 32 | I: 2 | [ he says he means to use the fat that slowly accumulates in the tin - lid for polishing his boots , and roars with laughter for half an hour at his own joke . ]
#3138 | T: 32 | I: 2 | [ if only they would not look at one so -- what great misery can be in two such small spots , no bigger than a man ' s thumb -- in their eyes ! ]
#4479 | T: 32 | I: 2 | [ with a handsome gesture he waves toward us -- and the little woman goes from one to another and smiles at us and hands round the sausage ; she now looks quite handsome . ]
#349 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ when we went to the district - commandant to enlist , we were a class of twenty young men , many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks . ]
#793 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ it was this that made it impossible for him to crush us altogether -- we always reckoned that later , at the end of the war , we would have our revenge on him . ]
#941 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ the guns and the wagons float past the dun background of the moonlit landscape , the riders in their steel helmets resemble knights of a forgotten time ; it is strangely beautiful and arresting . ]
#1737 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ " you be thankful if you get so much as a coffin , " grins tjaden , " they ' ll slip you a waterproof sheet for your old aunt sally of a carcase . ]
#1928 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ suddenly it howls and flashes terrifically , the dug - out cracks in all its joints under a direct hit , fortunately only a light one that the concrete blocks are able to withstand . ]
#2734 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ i realise he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things ; i would do it willingly , but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words . ]
#3474 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ these voices , these quiet words , these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which i had been almost destroyed . ]
#4278 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ there is no one but would do anything for sister libertine , this marvellous sister , who spreads good cheer through the whole wing even when she can only be seen in the distance . ]
#4475 | T: 32 | I: 3 | [ there is a bit of creaking and rustling , and as we look up casually we see that the child has the bottle in its mouth , and is back again with its mother . ]
#3121 | T: 32 | I: 4 | [ everything gets eaten , notwithstanding , and if ever anyone is so well off as not to want all his share , there are a dozen others standing by ready to relieve him of it . ]
#3201 | T: 32 | I: 4 | [ in the night it is so thin it sounds frozen ; one must stand close up ; it would be much better in a room ; -- out here it makes a man grow sad . ]
#190 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ for us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity , the world of work , of duty , of culture , of progress -- to the future . ]
#2202 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ they do know what a hand - grenade is , it is true , but they have very little idea of cover , and what is most important of all , have no eye for it . ]
#2615 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ " " we might almost have known you were coming , " laughs my sister , " there is just your favourite dish , potato - cakes , and even whortleberries to go with them too . ]
#3615 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ for this i know -- he cannot be saved , i have , indeed , tried to tell myself that he will be , but at noon this pretence breaks down and melts before his groans . ]
#3636 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ the mouth is full and soft beneath his moustache ; the nose is slightly arched , the skin brownish ; it is now not so pale as it was before , when he was still alive . ]
#4520 | T: 32 | I: 5 | [ kat condemns it , because , he says , a man has to reckon with the possibility of an abdominal wound , and that is more dangerous on a full stomach than on an empty one . ]
#1524 | T: 32 | I: 6 | [ " we agree that it ' s the same for everyone ; not only for us here , but everywhere , for everyone who is of our age ; to some more , and to others less . ]
#643 | T: 32 | I: 7 | [ he despises it when not flavoured with bog - myrtle , and , " for god ' s sake , let it all be cooked together , not the potatoes , the beans , and the bacon separately . ]
#3354 | T: 32 | I: 9 | [ " state , state " -- tjaden snaps his fingers contemptuously , " gendarmes , police , taxes , that ' s your state ; -- if that ' s what you are talking about , no , thank you . ]
#317 | T: 31 | I: 1 | [ many an evening i have worked over them -- we all did something of the kind -- but that has become so unreal to me i cannot comprehend it any more . ]
#336 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ though müller would be delighted to have kemmerich ' s boots , he is really quite as sympathetic as another who could not bear to think of such a thing for grief . ]
#1759 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ a few months ago i was sitting in a dug - out playing skat ; after a while i stood up and went to visit some friends in another dug - out . ]
#2486 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ i wish i never thought of them ; but desire turns my mind to them involuntarily and i am afraid for it might be impossible ever to be free of them again . ]
#3991 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ two orderlies hold my arms fast , but i break loose with one of them and try to crash into the surgeon ' s spectacles just as he notices and springs back . ]
#4625 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ a single flyer routed two companies of them for a joke , just as they came fresh from the train -- before they had ever heard of such a thing as cover . ]
#384 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ when he reported me the company commander laughed at him and told him he ought to keep his eyes open ; he understood himmelstoss , and apparently was not displeased at his discomfiture . ]
#386 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ one sunday as kropp and i were lugging a latrine - bucket on a pole across the barrack - yard , himmelstoss came by , all polished up and spry for going out . ]
#753 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ now i ask you : let a man be whatever you like in peacetime , what occupation is there in which he can behave like that without getting a crack on the nose ? ]
#833 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ at any rate he scored a bed - cover out of it ; for when we returned a few hours later to look for it , it was no longer to be found . ]
#2135 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ at first he called only for help -- the second night he must have had some delirium , he talked with his wife and his children , we often detected the name elise . ]
#2213 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ a man would like to spank them , they are so stupid , and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be . ]
#2530 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ i am almost afraid to tell the little brunette that i am going away , and when i return we will be far from here ; we will never see one another again . ]
#2802 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ i often sit with one of them in the little beer garden and try to explain to him that this is really the only thing : just to sit quietly , like this . ]
#3339 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ " " that i don ' t know , " i say , " but whichever way it is there ' s war all the same and every month more countries coming in . ]
#3466 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ i raise myself slowly and reach forward with my arms , dragging my body after me and then lie on the edge of the shell - hole , half in and half out . ]
#3604 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ in any case i must do it , so that if the fellows over there capture me they will see that i wanted to help him , and so will not shoot me . ]
#3801 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ suddenly there is a crash in the drawing - room , and an iron stove hurtles through the wall past us and on , a yard from us out through the wall behind . ]
#4225 | T: 31 | I: 3 | [ " yes , " he explains , " i got a crack in the head and they presented me with a certificate to say that i was periodically not responsible for my actions . ]
#1351 | T: 31 | I: 4 | [ there is the mean little hut on the moors , the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat , the miserable pay , the dirty labourer ' s clothes . ]
#4590 | T: 31 | I: 4 | [ it is set up in a crater alongside us ; berger has fetched it , and now the counterattack comes over from behind ; we are set free and make contact with the rear . ]
#4602 | T: 31 | I: 4 | [ it affects others so that they begin to rave , to run away -- there was one man who even tried to dig himself into the ground with hands , feet , and teeth . ]
#4663 | T: 31 | I: 4 | [ the hindermost of the two flame - throwers is hit , he falls , the hose slips away from the other fellow , the fire squirts about on all sides and the man burns . ]
#4673 | T: 31 | I: 4 | [ not much is said about it , we are falling back , we will not be able to attack again after this big offensive , we have no more men and no more ammunition . ]
#913 | T: 31 | I: 5 | [ in the spasm of terror , under the hailing of annihilation , in the bellowing death of the explosions , o earth , thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new - won life . ]
#2916 | T: 31 | I: 5 | [ i wonder what i , the old soldier , would do if this skinful of woe ever dared to say to me again : " bã ¤ umer , give the imperfect of ' aller . ]
#3547 | T: 31 | I: 5 | [ so i crawl away to the farthest corner and stay there , my eyes glued on him , my hand grasping the knife -- ready , if he stirs , to spring at him again . ]
#2085 | T: 31 | I: 6 | [ they arise no more ; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon , they are a mysterious reflection , an apparition , that haunts us , that we fear and love without hope . ]
#870 | T: 31 | I: 7 | [ we are not , indeed , in the front - line , but only in the reserves , yet in every face can be read : this is the front , now we are within its embrace . ]
#3592 | T: 31 | I: 8 | [ i bend forward , shake my head and whisper : " no , no , no , " i raise one hand , i must show him that i want to help him , i stroke his forehead . ]
#1289 | T: 30 | I: 1 | [ he seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching . ]
#100 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ and as if to show that all things were equal to him , of his own free will he issued in addition half a pound of synthetic honey to each man . ]
#122 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ three - quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions , and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation . ]
#1555 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ " i have a feeling that next time we go up wiring i ' ll be letting a bundle of wire fall on himmelstoss ' s leg , " hints kropp . ]
#2426 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ once he wakes up and grins so craftily that we are alarmed and begin to think he is cheating , and that we have given him the punch to no purpose . ]
#3515 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ at once i slip down into the water , my helmet on the nape of my neck and my mouth just clear so that i can get a breath of air . ]
#3527 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ i press my head against the earth and listen to the muffled thunder , like the explosions of quarrying -- and raise it again to listen for the sounds on top . ]
#3889 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ so long as any part of the supply dump still stands we don ' t worry , we desire nothing better than to stay here till the end of the war . ]
#4117 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ after a few hours i am no longer the only one , and by morning we are quite accustomed to it and ask for what we want without any false modesty . ]
#4319 | T: 30 | I: 2 | [ but the sister makes the mistake of removing his tunic from the hook and putting it on the trolley too , so that she should not have to make two journeys . ]
#2724 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ the glass is half empty , but there are a few good swigs ahead of me , and besides i can always order a second and a third if i wish to . ]
#2732 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ he wants me to tell him about the front ; he is curious in a way that i find stupid and distressing ; i no longer have any real contact with him . ]
#2768 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ the head - master with the steel watch - chain wants to have at least the whole of belgium , the coal - areas of france , and a slice of russia . ]
#3147 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ of course , they don ' t get much for such things , though they may have taken immense pains with them -- they go for a slice or two of bread . ]
#3798 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ we sweat like monkeys moving it in , but a man cannot let a thing like that slip , and it would certainly be shot to pieces in a day or two . ]
#4000 | T: 30 | I: 3 | [ apparently he is pleased at my self - control , for he now sets my leg carefully in splints and says : " to - morrow you ' ll be off home . ]
#801 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ at last we heard his footstep , which we recognised easily , so often had we heard it in the mornings as the door flew open and he bawled : " get up ! ]
#1013 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ so that the helmet should be of some use i stick it on his behind ; -- not for a jest , but out of consideration , since that is his highest part . ]
#1158 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ -- the hand shakes me , i turn my head , in the second of light i stare into the face of katczinsky , he has his mouth wide open and is yelling . ]
#2011 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ a young frenchman lags behind , he is overtaken , he puts up his hands , in one he still holds his revolver -- does he mean to shoot or to give himself ! ]
#3637 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ for a moment the face seems almost healthy ; -- then it collapses suddenly into the strange face of the dead that i have so often seen , strange faces , all alike . ]
#4544 | T: 30 | I: 4 | [ we were just coming back from the front line , and at a turning of the road near our billets , marvellous in the morning twilight , stood this cherry tree before us . ]
#1473 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ " does it go : ' we germans fear god and none else in the whole world , ' or ' we , the germans , fear god and -- ' " i submit . ]
#2160 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ " haie , man , she must have legs like , legs -- " his thoughts mount somewhat higher " and a behind too she must have , like a -- like an elephant ! ]
#2286 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ now we freeze , it is autumn , the leaves rustle , the voices flutter out wearily : " one -- two -- three -- four -- " and cease at thirty - two . ]
#3050 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ let us rise up and go out , back through the years , where the burden of all this misery lies on us no more , back to you and me alone , mother ! ]
#3851 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ i stay to finish my last four pancakes ; twice i have to drop to the floor ; -- after all , it means four pancakes more , and they are my favourite dish . ]
#4697 | T: 30 | I: 5 | [ then the heat sinks heavily into our shell - holes like a jelly fish , moist and oppressive , and on one of these late summer days , while bringing food , kat falls . ]
#355 | T: 30 | I: 6 | [ at first astonished , then embittered , and finally indifferent , we recognised that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush , not intelligence but the system , not freedom but drill . ]
#4747 | T: 30 | I: 6 | [ i jump up , eager to help him , i take him up and start off at a run , a slow , steady pace , so as not to jolt his leg too much . ]
#706 | T: 30 | I: 7 | [ even you can become the object of desire ; out here you have a faint resemblance to home ; your rooms , full of the smell of stale food , sleep , smoke , and clothes . ]
#4392 | T: 30 | I: 7 | [ but one day the door flies open , the flat trolley rolls in , and there on the stretcher , pale , thin , upright and triumphant , with his shaggy head of curls sits peter . ]
#645 | T: 29 | I: 1 | [ then all becomes quiet in the big room -- only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artilleryman spitting every now and then . ]
#791 | T: 29 | I: 1 | [ kropp had even gone so far as to propose entering the postal service in peacetime in order to be himmelstoss ' s superior when he became a postman again . ]
#1250 | T: 29 | I: 1 | [ " such a kid -- " he repeats it " young innocents -- " our losses are less than was to be expected -- five killed and eight wounded . ]
#77 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ under shellfire he wouldn ' t bring his kitchen up near enough , so that our soup - carriers had to go much farther than those of the other companies . ]
#126 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ more than that , they are so much a matter of course that their comfortable performance is fully as much enjoyed as the playing of a safe top running flush . ]
#274 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ " if we were to give morphia to everyone we would have to have tubs full -- " " you only attend to officers properly , " says kropp viciously . ]
#338 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ were kemmerich able to make any use of the boots , then müller would rather go bare - foot over barbed wire than scheme how to get hold of them . ]
#410 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ but above all each of them wanted to keep his good job there as long as possible , and this he could do only by being strict with the recruits . ]
#761 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ all he sees is that he has been put through the mill and sent to the front , but he knows well enough what he must do and what not . ]
#1229 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ we have nothing more , so i slip up the wounded man ' s trouser leg still farther in order to use a piece of his underpants as a bandage . ]
#1638 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ my arms have grown wings and i ' m almost afraid of going up into the sky , as though i held a couple of captive balloons in my fists . ]
#1746 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ there are at least four more batteries of nine - inch guns to the right of the farm , and behind the poplars they have put in trench - mortars . ]
#2411 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ we climb out on the bank on our side of the canal and watch to see whether they go into the house , for they might easily have been lying . ]
#3648 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ if only he had run two yards farther to the left , he might now be sitting in the trench over there and writing a fresh letter to his wife . ]
#3882 | T: 29 | I: 2 | [ we explain that we are the guard and so know our way about , we get hold of the tinned stuff and exchange it for things we are short of . ]
#256 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ " we all three have the same thought ; even if he should get better , he would be able to use only one -- they are no use to him . ]
#901 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ we start out for the front plain soldiers , either cheerful or gloomy : then come the first gun - emplacements and every word of our speech has a new ring . ]
#1311 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ " then he puts it back and swears : " damned lousy war -- " " it ' s all very well for you to talk , " i tell him . ]
#1556 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ " we ' ll have quite a lot of jokes with him , " laughs müller -- that is our sole ambition : to knock the conceit out of a postman . ]
#3350 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ one people offends the other -- " " then i haven ' t any business here at all , " replies tjaden , " i don ' t feel myself offended . ]
#3448 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ i tell myself that my alarm is absurd , that there is probably nothing at all there in the darkness watching me , otherwise they would not be firing so low . ]
#3499 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ falteringly i work my way farther , i move off over the ground like a crab and rip my hands sorely on the jagged splinters , as sharp as razor blades . ]
#3805 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ all at once we prick up our ears , hurry across , and suddenly stand petrified -- there running up and down in a little sty are two live sucking pigs . ]
#4512 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ sometimes they give an advantage for profiting by a situation ; -- but they also bring consequences along with them , in that they arouse prejudices which have to be overcome . ]
#4591 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ afterwards , as we lie in comparatively good cover , one of the food - carriers reports that a couple of hundred yards distant there lies a wounded messenger - dog . ]
#168 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ i can see him now , as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice : " won ' t you join up , comrades ? ]
#185 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ because he could not see , and was mad with pain , he failed to keep under cover , and so was shot down before anyone could go and fetch him in . ]
#486 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ the whole world ought to pass by this bed and say : " that is franz kemmerich , nineteen and a half years old , he doesn ' t want to die . ]
#504 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ i bend over franz and talk to him as though that could save him : " perhaps you will go to the convalescent home at klosterberg , among the villas , franz . ]
#1817 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ " kat has lost all his fun since we have been here , which is bad , for kat is an old front - hog , and can smell what is coming . ]
#2316 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ we want to live at any price ; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which , though they might be ornamental enough in peacetime , would be out of place here . ]
#2872 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ " just think of it , " says he , and takes out a couple of good cigars , " i come back here from the hospital and bump right into him . ]
#3978 | T: 29 | I: 4 | [ " i ' ve made up my mind , " he says after a while , " if they take off my leg , i ' ll put an end to it . ]
#1577 | T: 29 | I: 6 | [ next time , when you go up with us , before they die the fellows will come up to you , click their heels , and ask stiffly : ' please may i go ? ]
#2040 | T: 29 | I: 6 | [ the fellows over there are well looked after ; they fare magnificently , as against us , poor starving wretches , with our turnip jam ; they can get all the meat they want . ]
#3724 | T: 29 | I: 6 | [ i fix my eyes on a shell - hole ; the moment the light dies i scurry over into it , grope farther , spring into the next , duck down , scramble onward . ]
#4681 | T: 29 | I: 6 | [ summer of 1918 -- breath of hope that sweeps over the scorched fields , raging fever of impatience , of disappointment , of the most agonising terror of death , insensate question : why ? ]
#823 | T: 28 | I: 1 | [ as he stretched out his right arm preparatory to giving him a box on the ear he looked as if he were going to reach down a star . ]
#2189 | T: 28 | I: 1 | [ two are smashed so that tjaden remarks you could scrape them off the wall of the trench with a spoon and bury them in a mess - tin . ]
#1517 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ all i do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on -- it makes me sick , it is and always was disgusting . ]
#1931 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ if we were in one of those light dug - outs that they have been building lately instead of this deeper one , none of us would be alive . ]
#2431 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ we stow the things carefully in our boots ; we have to take them to protect our feet against treading on wire and broken glass on the other bank . ]
#2880 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ then he brought up his biggest guns and asked confidentially : ' would you like me to use my influence so that you can take an emergency - exam . ]
#2991 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ tell me how it was and even though it will be terrible , it will be far better than what i have to think if you don ' t . ]
#3104 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles , as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory . ]
#3146 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ now they wear only the most pitiful clothing , and try to exchange little carvings and objects that they have made out of shell fragments and copper driving bands . ]
#4409 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ many of the wounded have their shattered limbs hanging free in the air from a gallows ; underneath the wound a basin is placed into which drips the pus . ]
#4601 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ he is absolutely mad for he has to pass through the barrage ; but this lightning that lowers somewhere above us all has struck him and made him demented . ]
#7 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ the cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat ; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes , and spoons him out a great dollop . ]
#147 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ one of us will say : " well , boys .... " or " it was a near thing that time .... " and for a moment we fall silent . ]
#508 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ you can build an aquarium again and keep fish in it , and you can go without asking anyone , you can even play the piano if you want to . ]
#2067 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ even as children we had a great love for them , they drew us vaguely thither , we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling . ]
#2309 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ yesterday we were under fire , to - day we act the fool and go foraging through the countryside , to - morrow we go up to the trenches again . ]
#2320 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ we will make ourselves comfortable and sleep , and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies , and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted . ]
#2485 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ how different this is from the conditions in the soldiers ' brothels , to which we are allowed to go , and where we have to wait in long queues . ]
#2526 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ the canteen is his refuge , and beer is far more than a drink , it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety . ]
#2576 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ dogs trot along the narrow street , before the doors of the houses people stand and follow me with their gaze as i pass by , dirty and heavy laden . ]
#2718 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ a sunburnt , overgrown candidate for confirmation gazes at me in astonishment my mother is pleased to see me wearing civilian clothes ; it makes me less strange to her . ]
#4578 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ our trenches have now for some time been shot to pieces , and we have an elastic line , so that there is practically no longer any proper trench warfare . ]
#4676 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ wild , tormenting rumours of an armistice and peace are in the air , they lay hold on our hearts and make the return to the front harder than ever . ]
#200 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ we loved our country as much as they ; we went courageously into every action ; but also we distinguished the false from true , we had suddenly learned to see . ]
#1873 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ now the outside world seems to draw a little nearer : if food can be brought up , think the recruits , then it can ' t really be so bad . ]
#2313 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ i soon found out this much : -- terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks ; -- but it kills , if a man thinks about it . ]
#3575 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ a man with a small pointed beard lies there ; his head is fallen to one side , one arm is half - bent , his head rests helplessly upon it . ]
#3600 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ i climb down , take out my handkerchief , spread it out , push it under and scoop up the yellow water that strains through into the hollow of my hand . ]
#3661 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ 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 . ]
#4344 | T: 28 | I: 4 | [ " we ' ll soon put that right , " he tells them , " we will just do a small operation , and then you will have perfectly sound feet . ]
#299 | T: 28 | I: 5 | [ suddenly little kropp throws his cigarette away , stamps on it savagely , and looking around him with a broken and distracted face , stammers " damned shit , the damned shit ! ]
#3577 | T: 28 | I: 5 | [ he is dead , i say to myself , he must be dead , he doesn ' t feel anything any more ; it is only the body that is gurgling there . ]
#4452 | T: 28 | I: 5 | [ " well , marja , " says lewandowski , and gulps dangerously with his adam ' s apple " you can come in all right , they won ' t hurt you . ]
#4586 | T: 28 | I: 5 | [ the cooling - water evaporates , we hastily pass round the case , every man pisses in it , and thus we again have water , and are able to continue firing . ]
#320 | T: 28 | I: 6 | [ for us young men of twenty everything is extraordinarily vague , for kropp , müller , leer , and for me , for all of us whom kantorek calls the " iron youth . ]
#3696 | T: 28 | I: 6 | [ but if i come out of it , comrade , i will fight against this , that has struck us both down ; from you , taken life -- and from me -- ? ]
#3580 | T: 28 | I: 8 | [ i drag myself toward him , hesitate , support myself on my hands , creep a bit farther , wait , again a terrible journey of three yards , a long , a terrible journey . ]
#27 | T: 27 | I: 1 | [ he swears that they are obliged by an army order to wear silk chemises and to bathe before entertaining guests of the rank of captain and upwards . ]
#3647 | T: 27 | I: 1 | [ the dead man might have had thirty more years of life if only i had impressed the way back to our trench more sharply on my memory . ]
#79 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ he is as fat as a hamster in winter , but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front - line . ]
#253 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ they are fine english boots of soft , yellow leather which reach to the knees and lace up all the way -- they are things to be coveted . ]
#647 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ i think i must be dreaming ; he has two loaves of bread under his arm and a bloodstained sandbag full of horse - flesh in his hand . ]
#1008 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ he has buried his face in his hands , his helmet has fallen off i fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head . ]
#1115 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ the next minute under a second explosion part of the wood rises slowly in the air , three or four trees sail up and then crash to pieces . ]
#1186 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ we no longer have to be careful , but work away till the coffin gives with a sigh before the spade that we have dug in under it . ]
#1774 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ kropp wrapped his in his waterproof sheet and put it under his head , but he cannot sleep because they run over his face to get at it . ]
#1841 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ when a shell lands in the trench we note how the hollow , furious blast is like a blow from the paw of a raging beast of prey . ]
#2004 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ we reach the shelter of the reserves and yearn to creep in and disappear ; -- but instead we must turn round and plunge again into the horror . ]
#2103 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ still the parachute - rockets shoot up and cast their pitiless light over the stony landscape , which is full of craters and frozen lights like a moon . ]
#3512 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ when the attack starts i will let myself fall into the water , with my face as deep in the mud as i can keep it without suffocating . ]
#3921 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ the children hold on to their mothers ' hands , and often an older girl leads the little ones who stumble onward and are for ever looking back . ]
#4097 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ she looks at me with her clear eyes , and the more wonderful and sweet she is the less am i able to tell her what i want . ]
#4163 | T: 27 | I: 2 | [ one fellow who has been there a couple of days already explains it to us : " up here in the corridor every morning the sisters say prayers . ]
#210 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " müller is rather crude and tactless , otherwise he would hold his tongue , for anybody can see that kemmerich will never come out of this place again . ]
#506 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ it is the loveliest time of the year now , when the corn ripens ; at evening the fields in the sunlight look like mother - of - pearl . ]
#689 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries , dressed in bathing - drawers and armed with clubs , can have it out among themselves . ]
#1035 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " that ' s no disgrace , " i reassure him : " many ' s the man before you has had his pants full after the first bombardment . ]
#2059 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ a great quietness rules in this blossoming quadrangle , the sun lies warm on the heavy grey stones , i place my hand upon them and feel the warmth . ]
#2162 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " i wish i could play hot - hand with her once , my hat -- " haie beams , proud that his girl should receive so much appreciation . ]
#2488 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ and if i press ever deeper into the arms that embrace me , perhaps a miracle may happen .... so , after a time we find ourselves reassembled again . ]
#2652 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " " yes , but heinrich bredemeyer was here just lately and said it was terrible out there now , with the gas and all the rest of it . ]
#2725 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ there are no bugles and no bombardments , the children of the house play in the skittle - alley , and the dog rests his head against my knee . ]
#3103 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ we advance at a run , fling ourselves down , and our panting breath moves the stalks of the grasses and the flowers of the heather to and fro . ]
#3144 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ the price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread , or a loaf of bread and a small , tough ham sausage . ]
#3325 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " but look , " he announces , " i simply can ' t believe that an emperor has to go to the latrine the same as i have . ]
#3330 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ " but what i would like to know , " says albert , " is whether there would not have been a war if the kaiser had said no . ]
#3848 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ everyone ducks and then two more trot off , each with a big can of finest grade coffee , and reach the dug - out before the next explosion . ]
#4122 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ i don ' t feel too bad ; i have some pain , but the worst of it is that apparently there are still lice under the plaster bandage . ]
#4242 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ we have been making rather heavy demands on her during the night , because we have all been freshly bandaged , and so have a good deal of pain . ]
#4654 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ two fellows with a flamethrower are seen , one carries the tin on his back , the other has the hose in his hands from which the fire spouts . ]
#4690 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ if we go out , the rain at once soaks through our overcoat and clothing ; -- and we remain wet all the time we are in the line . ]
#4828 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long ; his face had an expression of calm , as though almost glad the end had come . ]
#1653 | T: 27 | I: 4 | [ i press it against the ground and say over to myself : jerk the revolver up , fire before he has a chance to grab , and then jump up . ]
#3188 | T: 27 | I: 4 | [ the prisoners sing a chorale , they sing in parts , and it sounds almost as if there were no voices , but an organ far away on the moor . ]
#3591 | T: 27 | I: 4 | [ then his hand slips slowly from his breast , only a little bit , it sinks just a few inches , but this movement breaks the power of the eyes . ]
#4642 | T: 27 | I: 4 | [ it is nothing that regiment after regiment returns again and again to the ever more hopeless struggle , that attack follows attack along the weakening , retreating , crumbling line . ]
#1056 | T: 27 | I: 5 | [ one can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes ; ghostly , invisible , it is everywhere , between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably . ]
#4023 | T: 27 | I: 5 | [ " albert , old man , " i suddenly bethink myself , " our four - poster and the cat -- " " and the club chairs , " he adds . ]
#4405 | T: 27 | I: 6 | [ on the left the blind and the lung wounds , pelvis wounds , wounds in the joints , wounds in the kidneys , wounds in the testicles , wounds in the intestines . ]
#4419 | T: 27 | I: 6 | [ 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 . ]
#3898 | T: 27 | I: 8 | [ " -- " stand at ease , tjaden ; and what ' s more , don ' t say ' what , ' say ' yes , sir , ' -- now : tjaden ! ]
#1802 | T: 26 | I: 1 | [ in the next sector some of our men were found whose noses were cut off and their eyes poked out with their own saw - bayonets . ]
#2359 | T: 26 | I: 1 | [ i am not very enthusiastic because it doesn ' t do one ' s clothes any good and a man is lousy again inside two hours . ]
#4599 | T: 26 | I: 1 | [ for these cases of front - line madness become dangerous if one is not able to fling the man to the ground and hold him fast . ]
#76 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ no one felt kindly toward him , for it was his fault that the food often came up to us in the line too late and cold . ]
#236 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ indeed he did have a face like a child , and such frail bones that after four weeks ' pack - carrying he already had flat feet . ]
#655 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ then he hauls out a frying pan from under his coat , and a handful of salt as well as a lump of fat from his pocket . ]
#923 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ we march up , moody or good - tempered soldiers - - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals . ]
#943 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes ; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them . ]
#1110 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ " i don ' t know , i don ' t know -- " we come to the communication - trench and then to the open fields . ]
#2107 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ i hear the rattle of the mess - tins and immediately feel a strong desire for warm food ; it would do me good and comfort me . ]
#2325 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ we don ' t like that because we are in a good humour : we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces . ]
#2807 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ no doubt they are sitting in the canteen , or perhaps swimming - - soon they will have to go up to the front - line again . ]
#3426 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ as everybody we see there is dead we do not waste any more time , but report the affair at the next stretcher - bearers ' post . ]
#3560 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ my hands are white at the knuckles , i clench them so tightly in my longing for the fire to cease so that my comrades may come . ]
#3841 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ whenever i hear a shell coming i drop down on one knee with the pan and the pancakes , and duck behind the wall of the window . ]
#3968 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ they give us a thin soup which we spoon down greedily and scornfully , because we are accustomed to better times but are hungry all the same . ]
#3982 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ i am frightened and think quickly what i ought to do ; for everyone knows that the surgeons in the dressing stations amputate on the slightest provocation . ]
#4553 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ " " ach , why -- it ' s merely that i can ' t sleep -- " " what did you pick the cherry branches for ? ]
#4608 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ before he died he handed over his pocket - book to me , and bequeathed me his boots -- the same that he once inherited from kemmerich . ]
#219 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ i kick müller on the shin , for he is just about to tell kemmerich what the orderlies told us outside : that kemmerich has lost his foot . ]
#1096 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ his voice is agitated , it sounds almost dignified as he says : " i tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war . ]
#1309 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ peace - time , man , albert -- " he fumbles in his oil - cloth pocket - book for a photograph and suddenly shows it all round . ]
#1881 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ i take out a scrap of bread , eat the white and put the crust back in my knapsack ; from time to time i nibble at it . ]
#1922 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ though he raves and his eyes roll , it can ' t be helped , we have to give him a hiding to bring him to his senses . ]
#1975 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ we make for the rear , pull wire cradles into the trench and leave bombs behind us with the strings pulled , which ensures us a fiery retreat . ]
#1981 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ we crouch behind every corner , behind every barrier of barbed wire , and hurl heaps of explosives at the feet of the advancing enemy before we run . ]
#2038 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ occasionally it has been the chief reason for a flying raid on our part , for our nourishment is generally very bad ; we have a constant hunger . ]
#2044 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ enough to eat is just as valuable as a good dugout ; it can save our lives ; that is the reason we are so greedy for it . ]
#2299 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ but he is won over , too , when himmelstoss tells us that he is taking the place of the sergeant - cook who has gone on leave . ]
#2332 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ we can hardly credit that such things still exist , a girl in a light summer dress , with a red patent - leather belt about her hips ! ]
#2362 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ " we might see if we could get a clean shirt as well -- " " socks might be better , " says albert , not without reason . ]
#2593 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ i lean my rifle in a corner , i set my pack against the wall , place my helmet on it and fling down my equipment and baggage . ]
#2838 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ it occurs to me that i must go and see kemmerich ' s mother ; -- i might visit mittelstaedt too , he should be at the barracks . ]
#2867 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ i do not indeed , go to my room any more , but comfort myself with the thought that a few days are not enough to judge by . ]
#3053 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ " " you do it then , and if the others say anything -- " " that won ' t worry me , mother -- " she sighs . ]
#3240 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ in order to cheer him up a bit i tell him a few stories , soldiers ' jokes and the like , about generals and sergeant - majors . ]
#3789 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ we have to take things as lightly as we can , so we make the most of every opportunity , and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror . ]
#4088 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ " you could hear that well enough for yourself , " i growl , " my head -- " a door opens at the rear of the car . ]
#4478 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ he unpacks the embroidered handbag , and some good sausages come to light ; lewandowski takes up the knife with a flourish and saws the meat into slices . ]
#4537 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ then the muffled roar of the battle becomes a ring that encircles us , we creep in upon ourselves , and with big eyes stare into the night . ]
#4684 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ there are so many airmen here , and they are so sure of themselves that they give chase to single individuals , just as though they were hares . ]
#4805 | T: 26 | I: 3 | [ i have fourteen days rest , because i have swallowed a bit of gas ; in the little garden i sit the whole day long in the sun . ]
#523 | T: 26 | I: 4 | [ he says nothing ; all that lies behind him ; he is entirely alone now with his little life of nineteen years , and cries because it leaves him . ]
#3089 | T: 26 | I: 4 | [ i was a soldier , and now i am nothing but an agony for myself , for my mother , for everything that is so comfortless and without end . ]
#4422 | T: 26 | I: 4 | [ and all men of my age , here and over there , throughout the whole world see these things ; all my generation is experiencing these things with me . ]
#4641 | T: 26 | I: 4 | [ they are merely honest and call a thing by its name ; for there is a very great deal of fraud , injustice , and baseness in the army . ]
#1159 | T: 26 | I: 5 | [ i hear nothing , he rattles me , comes nearer , in a momentary lull his voice reaches me : " gas -- gaas -- gaaas -- pass it on . ]
#2276 | T: 26 | I: 5 | [ and at each call a little group separates itself off , a small handful of dirty , pallid soldiers , a dreadfully small handful , and a dreadfully small remnant . ]
#4415 | T: 26 | I: 5 | [ and this is only one hospital , one single station ; there are hundreds of thousands in germany , hundreds of thousands in france , hundreds of thousands in russia . ]
#4508 | T: 26 | I: 5 | [ our thoughts are clay , they are moulded with the changes of the days ; -- when we are resting they are good ; under fire , they are dead . ]
#4809 | T: 26 | I: 5 | [ all that meets me , all that floods over me are but feelings -- greed of life , love of home , yearning for the blood , intoxication of deliverance . ]
#3717 | T: 26 | I: 6 | [ i breathe deeply and talk to myself in my excitement : " no foolishness now , paul -- quiet , paul , quiet -- then you will be saved , paul . ]
#1812 | T: 26 | I: 7 | [ dawn approaches without anything happening -- only the everlasting , nerve - wracking roll behind the enemy lines , trains , trains , lorries , lorries ; but what are they concentrating ? ]
#2277 | T: 26 | I: 7 | [ now someone is calling the number of our company , it is , yes , the company commander , he has come through , then ; his arm is in a sling . ]
#685 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ at the same time they lay a bottle of beer on the result of an air - fight that ' s going on above us . ]
#1277 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ so tjaden has rigged up the lid of a boot - polish tin with a piece of wire over the lighted stump of a candle . ]
#1664 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ i fetch a dixie and wood from the hut and we crawl into a small deserted lean - to which we use for such purposes . ]
#2225 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ " quickly i jump back into the dug - out and find him with a small scratch lying in a corner pretending to be wounded . ]
#2295 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ he has had the bounce knocked out of him since he has been in the trenches and wants to get on good terms with us . ]
#2301 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ he even sees to it that we are detailed the next two or three days to the cook - house for potato and turnip peeling . ]
#3247 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ then it occurs to me that my mother cooked them herself and that she was probably in pain as she stood before the hot stove . ]
#3415 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ over there lies a body with nothing but a piece of the underpants on one leg and the collar of the tunic around its neck . ]
#3557 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ i am not far enough from the enemy line to escape being picked off by one of the snipers if i attempt to get away . ]
#3878 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ in spite of all the flying fragments the drivers of the munition columns pour in like a swarm of bees and pounce on the bread . ]
#4368 | T: 25 | I: 1 | [ the next morning the old man has the two hauled up and lectures and jaws at them so long that in the end they consent . ]
#188 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ there were thousands of kantoreks , all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best -- in a way that cost them nothing . ]
#211 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ whether he finds his watch or not will make no difference , at the most one will only be able to send it to his people . ]
#359 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ we had fancied our task would be different , only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus - ponies . ]
#1356 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ " and when your twelve years are up you get your pension and become the village bobby , and you can walk about the whole day . ]
#1818 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ only tjaden seems pleased with the good rations and the rum ; he thinks we might even go back to rest without anything happening at all . ]
#2126 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ but when they think they have located him and crawl across , next time they hear the voice it seems to come from somewhere else altogether . ]
#2371 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ on the other side of the canal there are ponds flanked with poplars ; -- on the other side of the canal there are women too . ]
#2828 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ the little window is open , through it i see the familiar picture of the street with the rising spire of the church at the end . ]
#2941 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ the bakehouse is away at the other end of the town , and the two must go there and back through the whole length of it . ]
#3362 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ i had never seen a frenchman before i came here , and it will be just the same with the majority of frenchmen as regards us . ]
#3382 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ we didn ' t want the war , the others say the same thing -- and yet half the world is in it all the same . ]
#3491 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ more than once it has happened that some fellow has jumped joyfully into a trench , only then to discover that it was the wrong one . ]
#3997 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ now i see that he is tormenting me , he is merely raking about in the wound and looking up surreptitiously at me over his glasses . ]
#4536 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ we are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness , in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out . ]
#4715 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ i take up the wounded leg carefully , then he gives a jump and i take the knee of the sound leg also under my arm . ]
#4749 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ there i drop down on my knees , but have still enough strength to fall on to the side where kat ' s sound leg is . ]
#167 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ during drill - time kantorek gave us long lectures until the whole of our class went , under his shepherding , to the district commandant and volunteered . ]
#367 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ he was a small undersized fellow with a foxy , waxed moustache , who had seen twelve years ' service and was in civil life a postman . ]
#383 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ once , indeed , i became so infuriated that i ran at him blindly and gave him a mighty jab in the stomach and knocked him down . ]
#480 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ they are big and clumsy , the breeches are tucked into them , and standing up one looks well - built and powerful in these great drainpipes . ]
#1015 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ besides , a man has to lie for months on his belly in the hospital , and afterwards he would be almost sure to have a limp . ]
#1353 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ ' s duty , you have a good suit of clothes ; in the evening you ' re a free man and go off to the pub . ]
#2989 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ i know you want to comfort me , but don ' t you see , you torment me far more than if you told me the truth ? ]
#3179 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ it is not now the time but i will not lose these thoughts , i will keep them , shut them away until the war is ended . ]
#3227 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ " " not directly , i cannot do that -- the surgeon might take it amiss and that would not do ; he must operate on mother . ]
#3290 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ " you ' ve been lucky , " whispers kropp to me before we drop off to sleep , " they say we are going to russia . ]
#3545 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ it sounds to me as though he bellows , every gasping breath is like a cry , a thunder -- but it is only my heart pounding . ]
#3787 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ so matter - of - fact , indeed , that i often shudder when a thought from the days before the war comes momentarily into my head . ]
#3962 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ fear alone made it possible ; we should have run even if our feet had been shot off ; -- we would have run on the stumps . ]
#4357 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ what he wants is little dogs to experiment with , so the war is a glorious time for him , as it is for all the surgeons . ]
#4580 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ the front - line has been penetrated , and everywhere small groups have established themselves , the fight is carried on from clusters of shell - holes . ]
#4748 | T: 25 | I: 3 | [ my throat is parched ; everything dances red and black before my eyes , i stagger on doggedly and pitilessly and at last reach the dressing station . ]
#571 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ we stick out our chests , shave in the open , shove our hands in our pockets , inspect the recruits and feel ourselves stone - age veterans . ]
#670 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ he finds everything -- if it is cold , a small stove and wood , hay and straw , a table and chairs -- but above all food . ]
#683 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ kat turns his eyes to heaven , lets off a mighty fart , and says meditatively : " every little bean must be heard as well as seen . ]
#905 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ though i am in still water far away from its centre , i feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly , irresistibly , inescapably into itself . ]
#955 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ balls of light rise up high above it , silver and red spheres which explode and rain down in showers of red , white , and green stars . ]
#1306 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ " don ' t talk rot , i mean seriously -- " " so do i , " says kropp , " what else should a man do ? ]
#2265 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ i can only press his hand ; " it ' s all up , paul , " he groans and he bites his arm because of the pain . ]
#2421 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ there are four of us , but only three can go ; we must shake off tjaden , so ply him with rum and punch until he rocks . ]
#2447 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ " " then we just clear off , " grins leer , " he can try to read our regimental numbers here , " and smacks his behind . ]
#2634 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ there is my mother , there is my sister , there my case of butterflies , and there the mahogany piano -- but i am not myself there . ]
#2984 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ i have heard his voice at night , i have felt his anguish -- tell the truth , i want to know it , i must know it . ]
#4083 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ but my foot finds no support , i begin to slip , the plaster leg is no help , and with a crash i lie on the floor . ]
#4310 | T: 25 | I: 4 | [ the next morning she comes very early , but not early enough ; for when she goes up to the bed , someone else is in it already . ]
#1947 | T: 25 | I: 5 | [ our legs refuse to move , our hands tremble , our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness , over an almost irresistible , bursting roar . ]
#1980 | T: 25 | I: 5 | [ no longer do we lie helpless , waiting on the scaffold , we can destroy and kill , to save ourselves , to save ourselves and to be revenged . ]
#2884 | T: 25 | I: 5 | [ territorial kantorek , two years ago you preached us into enlisting ; and among us there was one , joseph behm , who didn ' t want to enlist . ]
#2248 | T: 25 | I: 10 | [ bombardment , barrage , curtain - fire , mines , gas , tanks , machine - guns , hand - grenades -- words , words , but they hold the horror of the world . ]
#2300 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ as a proof he produces on the spot two pounds of sugar for us and a half - pound of butter specially for tjaden . ]
#2397 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ after a few hundred yards they turn off and point to a house that stands a little distance away among the trees and shrubbery . ]
#2996 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ when a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual . ]
#3493 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ the confusion of shell - holes now seems so bewildering that i can no longer tell in my agitation which way i should go . ]
#3840 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ the explosions come so fast that the splinters strike again and again against the wall of the house and sweep in through the window . ]
#4579 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ when attack and counter - attack have waged backwards and forwards there remains a broken line and a bitter struggle from crater to crater . ]
#4675 | T: 24 | I: 1 | [ summer of 1918 -- never was so much silently suffered as in the moment when we depart once again for the front - line . ]
#80 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ we were in just the right mood , and there would certainly have been a dust - up if our company commander had not appeared . ]
#127 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ not for nothing was the word " latrine - rumour " invented ; these places are the regimental gossip - shops and common - rooms . ]
#150 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ it might easily have happened that we should not be sitting here on our boxes to - day ; it came damn near to that . ]
#235 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ then she caught sight of me and took hold of my arm again and again , and implored me to look after franz out there . ]
#688 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ he proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance - tickets and bands , like a bull fight . ]
#718 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ in order that our fellows going on shouldn ' t get lost there , himmelstoss used to practise the change in the barrack - room . ]
#893 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ our faces are neither paler nor more flushed than usual ; they are not more tense nor more flabby -- and yet they are changed . ]
#965 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ they have a hoarse , distant bellow like a rutting stag and make their way high above the howl and whistle of the smaller shells . ]
#1170 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ i remember the awful sights in the hospital : the gas patients who in day - long suffocation cough up their burnt lungs in clots . ]
#1211 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ his hip is covered with blood ; he is so exhausted that i feel for my water - bottle where i have rum and tea . ]
#1298 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ müller squints hungrily into it but checks himself and says " albert , what would you do if it were suddenly peace - time again ? ]
#1811 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ we expect the attack to follow and lie with our masks on , ready to tear them off as soon as the first shadow appears . ]
#2079 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow -- a vast , inapprehensible melancholy . ]
#2140 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ in the morning when we suppose he must already have long gone to his rest , there comes across to us one last gurgling rattle . ]
#2150 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ this deathly exhalation from the shell - holes seems to be a mixture of chloroform and putrefaction , and fills us with nausea and retching . ]
#2516 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ " i would rather not have gone for another eight days ; we are to stay here that much longer and it is good here . ]
#2821 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ a few i came by not quite honestly , i borrowed and did not return them because i did not want to part with them . ]
#3171 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ but as it is i perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature , the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men . ]
#3184 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ they comfort me ; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace . ]
#3299 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ a rumour is going round that there may be peace , but the other story is more likely -- that we are bound for russia . ]
#3712 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ suddenly it occurs to me that my own comrades may fire on me as i creep up ; they do not know i am coming . ]
#3860 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ then there is cognac and rum -- also from the blessed supply dump -- and once again long , fat cigars with belly - bands . ]
#3899 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ " tjaden retorts in the well - known phrase from goethe ' s " gotz von berlichingen , " with which he is always free . ]
#4004 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ " i manage to slip the sergeant - major two of my cigars with belly - bands , and then tip the word to him . ]
#4503 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ it was winter when i came up , and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments . ]
#88 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ and he knew many other things too , because he came to the company as a non - com , and was promoted from the ranks . ]
#984 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ i see the stars , i see the rockets , and for a moment have the impression that i have fallen asleep at a garden fãªte . ]
#1218 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ " gently , gently , it is much better -- " if he has been hit in the stomach he oughtn ' t to drink anything . ]
#1273 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ we wince , our eyes become tense , our hands are ready to vault over the side of the lorry into the ditch by the road . ]
#1598 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ he understands it all right though , and lectures himmelstoss , making it plain to him that the front isn ' t a parade - ground . ]
#3919 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ on the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows , in perambulators , and on their backs . ]
#4115 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ i sweat like a pig and say shyly : " well , only quite a little one -- " at any rate it produces the effect . ]
#4360 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ not a single one of them can walk better than he could before , almost all of them worse , and most only with plaster legs . ]
#4510 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ everyone is so , not only ourselves here -- the things that existed before are no longer valid , and one practically knows them no more . ]
#4688 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ we are not beaten , for as soldiers we are better and more experienced ; we are simply crushed and driven back by overwhelming superior forces . ]
#4 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ each man has another mess - tin full for the evening ; and , what is more , there is a double ration of sausage and bread . ]
#375 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ with full pack and rifle i have had to practise on a wet , soft , newly - ploughed field the " prepare to advance , advance ! ]
#964 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ they are smaller shells ; -- and amongst them , booming through the night like an organ , go the great coal - boxes and the heavies . ]
#2480 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ and often sound does not quite become a word but suffocates or floats away over me half finished ; an arch , a pathway , a comet . ]
#2519 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ i become gloomy : i will be away for six weeks -- that is lucky , of course , but what may happen before i get back ? ]
#2874 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ ' -- i look at him and say : territorial kantorek , business is business and schnapps is schnapps , you ought to know that well enough . ]
#3656 | T: 24 | I: 4 | [ i thought of your hand - grenades , of your bayonet , of your rifle ; now i see your wife and your face and our fellowship . ]
#1986 | T: 24 | I: 5 | [ they are blown to pieces , annihilated -- there are only broken bits of trenches , holes linked by cracks , nests of craters , that is all . ]
#2570 | T: 24 | I: 5 | [ i turn away , she smiles at me too foolishly , so obsessed with her own importance : " just look , i am giving a soldier coffee ! ]
#3906 | T: 24 | I: 5 | [ we often dip into it , and the tough ham sausages , the tins of liver sausages , the conserves , the boxes of cigarettes rejoice our hearts . ]
#405 | T: 24 | I: 6 | [ carefully we went down on our knees , then on our hands , and so on ; in the meantime , quite infuriated , he had given another command . ]
#4794 | T: 24 | I: 6 | [ i raise my eyes , i let them move round , and turn myself with them , one circle , one circle , and i stand in the midst . ]
#1344 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ " then he pulls a spoon out of the top of his boot and reaches over into kropp ' s mess - tin . ]
#1764 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ in a bombproof dug - out i may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours ' bombardment unscathed . ]
#2151 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ the nights become quiet and the hunt for copper driving - bands and the silken parachutes of the french star - shells begins . ]
#3113 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ we are too little acquainted with one another to do more than joke a bit and play poker or nap in the evenings . ]
#3280 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ before we turn in i bring out the rest of the potato - cakes and jam so that they can have some too . ]
#3797 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ albert and i find a mahogany bed which can be taken to pieces with a sky of blue silk and a lace coverlet . ]
#4212 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ i was annoyed because we were waked up unnecessarily and lost my senses so that i did not know what i was doing . ]
#4726 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ and how you brought me out of the barrage when i was still a young recruit and was wounded for the first time ? ]
#198 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ while they taught that duty to one ' s country is the greatest thing , we already knew that death - throes are stronger . ]
#352 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ we were still crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life , and to the war also an ideal and almost romantic character . ]
#471 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ he is not the first that i have seen thus ; but we grew up together and that always makes it a bit different . ]
#765 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ everyone knows that drill ceases only in the frontline and begins again a few miles behind , with all absurdities of saluting and parade . ]
#957 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ they light up everything as bright as day , their light shines on us and we see our shadows sharply outlined on the ground . ]
#1370 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ to kropp he says warmly : " if i were in your place i ' d see to it that i became a lieutenant . ]
#1751 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ if it were simply a mistake in aim no one would say anything , but the truth is that the barrels are worn out . ]
#1760 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ on my return nothing more was to be seen of the first one , it had been blown to pieces by a direct hit . ]
#1840 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ every man is aware of the heavy shells tearing down the parapet , rooting up the embankment and demolishing the upper layers of concrete . ]
#1874 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ we do not disabuse them ; we know that food is as important as ammunition and only for that reason must be brought up . ]
#2089 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ we might be amongst them and move in them ; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them . ]
#2429 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ the cigarettes we put in too , as well as three good rations of liver - sausage that were issued to us this evening . ]
#2659 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ you see for instance , i ' m well and fit -- " before my mother ' s tremulous anxiety i recover my composure . ]
#3084 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ on the landing i stumble over my pack , which lies there already made up because i have to leave early in the morning . ]
#3566 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ i take some earth and rub the skin with it ; now my hand is muddy and the blood cannot be seen any more . ]
#4177 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ " but we want to go on sleeping -- " " prayer is better than sleeping , " she stands there and smiles innocently . ]
#4665 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ after a while a fragment smashes away his chin , and the same fragment has sufficient force to tear open leer ' s hip . ]
#4709 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ i have opened the collar of my tunic and breathe heavily , i sweat and my face is swollen with the strain of carrying . ]
#4776 | T: 23 | I: 2 | [ " kat ' s hands are warm , i pass my hand under his shoulders in order to rub his temples with some tea . ]
#132 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ on the horizon float the bright yellow , sunlit observation - balloons , and the many little white clouds of the anti - aircraft shells . ]
#227 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ here lies our comrade , kemmerich , who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell - holes . ]
#363 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ by threes and fours our class was scattered over the platoons amongst frisian fishermen , peasants , and labourers with whom we soon made friends . ]
#466 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ his lips have fallen away , his mouth has become larger , his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk . ]
#815 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ haie squatted down , laid the cushion on his knees , felt where himmelstoss ' s head was and pressed it down on the pillow . ]
#877 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ it is swallowed up in the general murmur of the front : kat listens : " there ' ll be a bombardment to - night . ]
#1195 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ in the duty twilight lies a leg torn clean off ; the boot is quite whole , i take that all in at a glance . ]
#1297 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ from somewhere or other , probably the pioneer - cook - house , kropp has bagged for himself a mess - tin full of beans . ]
#1971 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ then his body drops clean away and only his hands with the stumps of his arms , shot off , now hang in the wire . ]
#2099 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ we are forlorn like children , and experienced like old men , we are crude and sorrowful and superficial -- i believe we are lost . ]
#2186 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ battle planes don ' t trouble us , but the observation planes we hate like the plague ; they put the artillery on to us . ]
#2273 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ it was summer when we came up , the trees were still green , now it is autumn and the night is grey and wet . ]
#2665 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ she shrugs her shoulders : " she has been in bed some months now , but we did not want to write and tell you . ]
#2899 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ the boots , tough old clod - hoppers , with turned - up toes and laces at the side are much too big for him . ]
#2927 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ on hands and knees , carrying his gun in regulation fashion , kantorek shoves his absurd figure over the sand immediately in front of us . ]
#3175 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ any non - commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit , any schoolmaster to a pupil , than they are to us . ]
#3374 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ " " i ' m not so sure about that , " contradicts kat , " he has not had a war up till now . ]
#3621 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ this is the first time i have killed with my hands , whom i can see close at hand , whose death is my doing . ]
#3821 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ three fellows put on thick gloves to protect their fingers against the grater , two others peel the potatoes , and the business gets going . ]
#4513 | T: 23 | I: 3 | [ it is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces ; and now we are melted down , and all bear the same stamp . ]
#605 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ it ' s a good thing to be friends with him , as kropp and i are , and haie westhus too , more or less . ]
#608 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ for example , we land at night in some entirely unknown spot , a sorry hole , that has been eaten out to the very walls . ]
#734 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ " roughly speaking it is , " says kat , and prepares for a long speech ; " but the root of the matter lies somewhere . ]
#921 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ it is this other , this second sight in us , that has thrown us to the ground and saved us , without our knowing how . ]
#1153 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ it wipes out the sensibilities , i merely crawl still farther under the coffin , it shall protect me , though death himself lies in it . ]
#1918 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ " he won ' t listen to anything and hits out , his mouth is wet and pours out words , half choked , meaningless words . ]
#2191 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ dead , his chest leans against the side of the trench , his face is lemon - yellow , in his beard still burns a cigarette . ]
#2278 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ we go over to him and i recognise kat and albert , we stand together , lean against each other , and look at one another . ]
#2379 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ we fling remarks at them in broken french , anything that comes into our heads , hastily and all jumbled together , anything to detain them . ]
#3334 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ " " it ' s queer , when one thinks about it , " goes on kropp , " we are here to protect our fatherland . ]
#3460 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ but immediately the wave floods over me anew , a mingled sense of shame , of remorse , and yet at the same time of security . ]
#3933 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ kropp seizes a branch , 1 heave him up by the leg , he cries out , i give him a swing and he flies over . ]
#4382 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ in the evening , while he is being fed , the sister is called away , and leaves the plate with the fork on his table . ]
#4803 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ if it again proves an illusion , then they will break up ; hope is high , it cannot be taken away again without an upheaval . ]
#1640 | T: 23 | I: 5 | [ before i can do anything , something comes in from outside ; i feel a blow , lie outstretched on the floor , and hear awful growls . ]
#3695 | T: 23 | I: 5 | [ " comrade , " i say to the dead man , but i say it calmly , " to - day you , to - morrow me . ]
#4006 | T: 23 | I: 5 | [ " " another good handful , " i say , " and my comrade , " i point to kropp , " he has some as well . ]
#4346 | T: 23 | I: 5 | [ " as soon as he is gone , josef , who knows everything , warns them : " don ' t you let him operate on you ! ]
#141 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ we set the lid of the margarine tub on our knees and so have a good table for a game of skat . ]
#243 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ it strikes me that these nails will continue to grow like lean fantastic cellar - plants long after kemmerich breathes no more . ]
#353 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ we were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school . ]
#1830 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ there is a rumour that the enemy are going to put tanks over and use low - flying planes for the attack . ]
#2018 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ we are so close on the heels of our retreating enemies that we reach it almost at the same time as they . ]
#2075 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ at the front there is no quietness and the curse of the front reaches so far that we never pass beyond it . ]
#2076 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ even in the remote depots and rest - areas the droning and the muffled noise of shelling is always in our ears . ]
#2703 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ he calls me back again and affably gives me to understand that for once he is pleased to put mercy before justice . ]
#3174 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ but who can draw such a distinction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles ' beards . ]
#3553 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ the machine - gunfire so sweeps the ground that i should be shot through and through before i could make one jump . ]
#3835 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ they are those damned spraying little daisy - cutters that make only a small hole and scatter widely close to the ground . ]
#4692 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ those who will wear high boots tie sand bags round the tops so that the mud does not pour in so fast . ]
#25 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ half an hour later every man had his mess - tin and we gathered at the cookhouse , which smelt greasy and nourishing . ]
#136 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the grasses sway their tall spears ; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer . ]
#196 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the first bombardment showed us our mistake , and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces . ]
#222 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ in his face there are already the strained lines that we know so well , we have seen them now hundreds of times . ]
#339 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ but as it is the boots are quite inappropriate to kemmerich ' s circumstances , whereas müller can make good use of them . ]
#402 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ he tried it on once more in the ploughed field with his " prepare to advance , advance " and " lie down . ]
#732 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ as sure as they get a stripe or a star they become different men , just as though they ' d swallowed concrete . ]
#736 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ and if you give a man a little bit of authority he behaves just the same way , he snaps at it too . ]
#817 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ haie let him get a gasp of air every so often , when he would give a mighty yell that was immediately hushed . ]
#864 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the gun - emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation , and look like a kind of military feast of the tabernacles . ]
#1118 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ " the fields are flat , the wood is too distant and dangerous -- the only cover is the graveyard and the mounds . ]
#1207 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the hedge is destroyed , the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches . ]
#1269 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ we hear their call " mind -- wire -- , " dip the knee in a half - sleep and straighten up again . ]
#1397 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ he tries it on though , and by addressing himself to one instead of to all of us hopes to get some response . ]
#1413 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ but he is on his guard : he has already had some rot dinned into him about getting a shot in the back . ]
#1492 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ " kropp supports me : " how can a man take all that stuff seriously when he ' s once been out here ? ]
#1680 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ we don ' t talk much , but i believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have . ]
#1919 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ it is a case of claustrophobia , he feels as though he is suffocating here and wants to get out at any price . ]
#1968 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ a whole line has gone down before our machine - guns ; then we have a lot of stoppages and they come nearer . ]
#2043 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ it is a good thing we have something decent to eat at last ; we still have a use for all our strength . ]
#2054 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ my strength is exhausted as always after an attack , and so it is hard for me to be alone with my thoughts . ]
#2247 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ once more he is the smart himmelstoss of the parade - ground , he has even outstripped the lieutenant and is far ahead . ]
#2356 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ so we proceed to tear the young man with the white trousers off the hoarding , taking care not to damage the girl . ]
#2415 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ we cannot last out without a drink , so we go to the canteen where there is beer and a kind of punch . ]
#2417 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ each man gladly believes the other man ' s story , only waiting impatiently till he can cap it with a taller one . ]
#2572 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ outside in front of the station the stream roars alongside the street , it rushes foaming from the sluices of the mill bridge . ]
#2631 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i sit by her bed , and through the window the chestnut trees in the beer garden opposite glow in brown and gold . ]
#2692 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i explain to him that i arrived on leave only an hour or two since , thinking that he would then trot along . ]
#2782 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ " i would like to know just how he pictures it to himself , and pour the third glass of beer into me . ]
#2964 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i pull myself together , and go with my sister to the slaughter - house to get a pound or two of bones . ]
#3110 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i often become so lost in the play of soft light and transparent shadow , that i almost fail to hear the commands . ]
#3455 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ it is nothing but an awful spasm of fear , a simple animal fear of poking out my head and crawling on farther . ]
#3519 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ -- swiftly i pull out my little dagger , grasp it fast and bury it in my hand once again under the mud . ]
#3529 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i know our barbed wire entanglements are strong and almost undamaged ; -- parts of them are charged with a powerful electric current . ]
#3554 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ i test it once with my helmet , which i take off and hold up to find out the level of the shots . ]
#3653 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ but you were only an idea to me before , an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response . ]
#3689 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ with the dead man ' s pencil i write the address on an envelope , then swiftly thrust everything back into his tunic . ]
#3760 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ " if he keeps that up he will get a little coloured bird for his buttonhole by this evening , " says albert . ]
#4025 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ in the evening we used to sit in them like lords , and intended later on to let them out by the hour . ]
#4155 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ the flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor , and always with someone stretched at full length upon them . ]
#4274 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ they frequently give us pain when re - making our beds , and then are so frightened that they hurt us still more . ]
#4356 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ at present you can still walk , but if once the old boy gets you under the knife you ' ll be cripples . ]
#4361 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ every six months he catches them again and breaks their bones afresh , and every time is going to be the successful one . ]
#4400 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ but i do not make much use of them ; i cannot bear albert ' s gaze as i move about the room . ]
#4705 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ kat is not very heavy ; so i take him up on my back and start off to the dressing station with him . ]
#4811 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ had we returned home in 1916 , out of the suffering and the strength of our experiences we might have unleashed a storm . ]
#4825 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ but so long as it is there it will seek its own way out , heedless of the will that is within me . ]
#762 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ it ' s simply amazing , i tell you , that the ordinary tommy sticks it all up here in the front - line . ]
#915 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ at the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back , in one part of our being , a thousand years . ]
#1274 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ nothing happens -- only the monotonous cry : " mind -- wire , " -- our knees bend -- we are again half asleep . ]
#1990 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ the sun blazes hotly , the sweat stings in our eyes , we wipe it off on our sleeves and often blood with it . ]
#2319 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ but our comrades are dead , we cannot help them , they have their rest -- and who knows what is waiting for us ? ]
#2435 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ swiftly we slip into the water , lie on our backs and swim , holding the boots with their contents up over our heads . ]
#2573 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ there stands the old , square watch - tower , in front of it the great mottled lime tree and behind it the evening . ]
#2831 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ it will be like this too , if i am lucky , when the war is over and i come back here for good . ]
#2930 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ " territorial kantorek , we have the good fortune to live in a great age , we must brace ourselves and triumph over hardship . ]
#3208 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ the hours are a torture ; we do not know what to talk about , so we speak of my mother ' s illness . ]
#3304 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ everyone is peevish and touchy , we do not take kindly to all this polishing , much less to the full - dress parades . ]
#3357 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ " " but they go together , " insists kropp , " without the state there wouldn ' t be any home - country . ]
#3404 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ a naked soldier is squatting in the fork of a tree , he still has his helmet on , otherwise he is entirely unclad . ]
#4266 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ when she perceives franz ' s trouble she begins to bustle , and says : " why did not someone say i was wanted ? ]
#4270 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ in the morning we look at his face , it has become sharp and yellow , whereas the evening before he looked almost healthy . ]
#4524 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ as in a polar expedition , every expression of life must serve only the preservation of existence , and is absolutely focused on that . ]
#4534 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ the bushmen are primitive and naturally so , but we are primitive in an artificial sense , and by virtue of the utmost effort . ]
#4561 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ when these peasants are excited they have a curious expression , a mixture of cow and yearning god , half stupid and half rapt . ]
#4700 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ it has got the bone , and kat groans desperately : " at last -- just at the last -- " i comfort him . ]
#604 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ by trade he is a cobbler , i believe , but that hasn ' t anything to do with it ; he understands all trades . ]
#1331 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ just you think , boys , a real featherbed with a spring mattress ; i wouldn ' t put trousers on again for a week . ]
#1679 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ we sit opposite one another , kat and i , two soldiers in shabby coats , cooking a goose in the middle of the night . ]
#2272 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ the wheels roll beneath us , we stand dully , and when the call " mind -- wire " comes , we bend our knees . ]
#2338 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ beside her stands a man in white trousers , a blue jacket , and sailor ' s cap ; but he interests us much less . ]
#2418 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ our hands are fidgety , we smoke countless cigarettes , until kropp says : " we might as well take them a few cigarettes too . ]
#2658 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ " no mother , that ' s only talk , " i answer , " there ' s not very much in what bredemeyer says . ]
#2742 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ it is my german - master , and he fastens on me with the usual question : " well , how are things out there ? ]
#2976 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ this quaking , sobbing woman who shakes me and cries out on me : " why are you living then , when he is dead ? ]
#3571 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ the gurgling continues , i stop my ears , but soon take my fingers away again , because then i cannot hear the other sound . ]
#3904 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ nevertheless , albert and i erect on top our four - poster bed complete with blue silk canopy , mattress , and two lace coverlets . ]
#3925 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ but a few minutes later the air screams , the earth heaves , cries ring out ; a shell has landed among our rear squad . ]
#417 | T: 22 | I: 5 | [ we did not break down , but adapted ourselves ; our twenty years , which made many another thing so grievous , helped us in this . ]
#741 | T: 22 | I: 5 | [ a non - com , can torment a private , a lieutenant a non - com , a captain a lieutenant , until he goes mad . ]
#2586 | T: 22 | I: 5 | [ " paul , " she cries , " paul -- " i nod , my pack bumps against the bannisters ; my rifle is so heavy . ]
#49 | T: 22 | I: 6 | [ his sharp , mousy features began to shine , his eyes grew small with cunning , his jaws twitched , and he whispered hoarsely : " man ! ]
#2014 | T: 22 | I: 6 | [ he leaps in the air , his arms thrown wide , his mouth wide open , yelling ; he staggers , in his back the bayonet quivers . ]
#2657 | T: 22 | I: 6 | [ against the parapet , in the dug - outs , just where they were , the men stood and lay about , with blue faces , dead . ]
#3127 | T: 22 | I: 6 | [ they have faces that make one think -- honest peasant faces , broad foreheads , broad noses , broad mouths , broad hands , and thick hair . ]
#106 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ but that is for recruits who as yet have not learned how to make the most of whatever comes their way . ]
#351 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ our thoughts of a career and occupation were as yet of too unpractical a character to furnish any scheme of life . ]
#630 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ -- then we ' ll have to pull in our belts and wait till the rations come up in the morning . ]
#786 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ we once spent the finest day of our army - life together -- the day before we left for the front . ]
#795 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ what could he do to us anyhow if he didn ' t recognise us and we left early in the morning ? ]
#1102 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ we trudge onward in single file through the trenches and shell - holes and come again to the zone of mist . ]
#1119 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ we stumble across in the dark and as though he had been spat there every man lies glued behind a mound . ]
#1233 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ in the meantime kat has taken a bandage from a dead man ' s pocket and we carefully bind the wound . ]
#1267 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ they watch for telephone wires which hang crosswise over the road so low that they might easily pull our heads off . ]
#1369 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ " apparently he would like most to have him in a cage and sail into him with a club every morning . ]
#1451 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ he goes off with haie and leer so that they won ' t find him in the first flush of excitement . ]
#1608 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ an hour later after tjaden and kropp are settled in behind their wire - netting we make our way into them . ]
#1763 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ it is just as much a matter of chance that i am still alive as that i might have been hit . ]
#1946 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ we are deadened by the strain -- a deadly tension that scrapes along one ' s spine like a gapped knife . ]
#2291 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ seven they have taken us farther back than usual to a field depot so that we can be re - organized . ]
#2383 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ although the water is cold we are very jovial and do our best to interest them so that they will stay . ]
#2656 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ should i tell her how we once found three enemy trenches with their garrison all stiff as though stricken with apoplexy ? ]
#2769 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ he produces reasons why we must have them and is quite inflexible until at last the others give in to him . ]
#3038 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ you still think i am a child - - why can i not put my head in your lap and weep ? ]
#3190 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ in the evening they stand again at the wire fence and the wind comes down to them from the beech woods . ]
#3203 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ so the last sunday before i go back to the front my father and eldest sister come over to see me . ]
#3242 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ they give me a pot of jam and a bag of potato - cakes that my mother has made for me . ]
#3710 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ with one bound the lust to live flares up again and everything that has filled my thoughts goes down before it . ]
#3810 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ about twenty yards from our dug - out there is a small house that was used as an officers ' billet . ]
#3845 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ after the next explosion two men dash across the fifty yards to the dug - out with the pots of vegetables . ]
#4007 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ we might possibly be glad to hand them to you out of the window of the hospital train in the morning . ]
#4414 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ a man cannot realise that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round . ]
#4421 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ i see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring . ]
#29 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ and four are nineteen years of age , and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war . ]
#134 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder , bumble - bees droning by quite drown it . ]
#573 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we stroll past the horseboxes and go over to the reinforcements , who are already being issued with gas masks and coffee . ]
#738 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ in himself man is essentially a beast , only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum . ]
#811 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ the next moment haie westhus was there , and spreading his arms he shoved us back in order to be first in . ]
#830 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ " himmelstoss ought to have been pleased ; his saying that we should each educate one another had borne fruit for himself . ]
#947 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ suddenly the line halts ; i bump my face against the roll of wire carried by the man in front and curse . ]
#993 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ he gazes thoughtfully at the front and says : " mighty fine fire - works if they weren ' t so dangerous . ]
#1174 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ i nudge kat , it is better to crawl out and lie on top than to stay where the gas collects most . ]
#1281 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we sit around with our shirts on our knees , our bodies naked to the warm air and our hands at work . ]
#1283 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ he suggests that he brought them back from the hospital at thourhout , where they attended personally on a surgeon - general . ]
#1414 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ the question about the gutter makes tjaden so mad that he becomes almost witty : " no you slept there by yourself . ]
#1839 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we look at each other in the momentary flashes of light , and with pale faces and pressed lips shake our heads . ]
#1948 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we have neither flesh nor muscles any longer , we dare not look at one another for fear of some incalculable thing . ]
#2093 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ perhaps it was only the privilege of our youth , but as yet we recognised no limits and saw nowhere an end . ]
#2132 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ kat and kropp even go out in the afternoon , and albert gets the lobe of his ear shot off in consequence . ]
#2406 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ the blonde girl twitters : " bread -- good -- " eagerly we assure them that we will bring some with us . ]
#2567 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ i pick up my pack and fasten the straps , i take my rifle in my hand and stumble down the steps . ]
#2817 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ i bought them complete because it was thoroughgoing , i did not trust the editors of selections to choose all the best . ]
#2850 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ and at the same time i fear to importune it too much , because i do not know what might happen then . ]
#3151 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ it is distressing to watch them take their afternoon meal thus ; one would like to crack them over their thick pates . ]
#3166 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ they stand at the wire fence ; sometimes one goes away and then another at once takes his place in the line . ]
#3172 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ a word of command has made these silent figures our enemies ; a word of command might transform them into our friends . ]
#3266 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ then at last i get some definite information , and by the afternoon i am able to report to the orderly room . ]
#3303 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ for eight whole days one would suppose we were in a base - camp , there is so much drill and fuss . ]
#3318 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ he thinks for a while and then asks : " and would a king have to stand up stiff to an emperor ? ]
#3394 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ albert lies down on the grass and growls angrily : " the best thing is not to talk about the rotten business . ]
#3429 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ since my leave i feel a certain strange attachment to the other fellows , and so i volunteer to go with them . ]
#3497 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ they seem to burn for an hour , and a man cannot make the least movement without bringing the bullets whistling round . ]
#3961 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ already he is no longer able to move his leg , and we both wonder how we managed to get this far . ]
#3998 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ my hands squeeze around the grips , i ' ll kick the bucket before he will get a squeak out of me . ]
#4045 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ it is covered with clean snow - white linen , that even has got the marks of the iron still on it . ]
#4111 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ i am in mortal terror at this turn , for i haven ' t any idea what the things are called professionally . ]
#4249 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ in our wing there is only one night sister , perhaps she has something to do in one of the other rooms . ]
#4276 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ they know how they must take hold of us , but we would be better pleased if they were somewhat more cheerful . ]
#4297 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ perhaps they do it for the sake of the others also , so that no one in the ward dies in sympathy . ]
#4358 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ you take a look down below at the staff ; there are a dozen fellows hobbling around that he has operated on . ]
#4435 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ lewandowski has lost his appetite , he even gives away red cabbage and sausage after he has had a couple of mouthfuls . ]
#67 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " i don ' t care about the stew , but i can only issue rations for eighty men , " persisted ginger . ]
#161 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " kantorek had been our schoolmaster , a stern little man in a grey tailcoat , with a face like a shrew mouse . ]
#192 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ the idea of authority , which they represented , was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom . ]
#199 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ but for all that we were no mutineers , no deserters , no cowards -- they were very free with all these expressions . ]
#255 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ he matches their soles against his own clumsy boots and says : " will you be taking them with you then , franz ? ]
#528 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " as i catch sight of the white apron i seize hold of it : " come quick , franz kemmerich is dying . ]
#728 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " surely himmelstoss was a very different fellow as a postman , " say i , after albert ' s disappointment has subsided . ]
#1009 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ he looks up , pushes the helmet off and like a child creeps under my arm , his head close to my breast . ]
#1157 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ there , i get a smack in the face , a hand clamps onto my shoulder -- has the dead man waked up ? ]
#1188 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ kat takes a piece of the lid , places it under the shattered arm , and we wrap all our bandages round it . ]
#1313 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " " true , " he nods , " and i have to see to it that they ' ve something to eat . ]
#2025 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ everywhere wire - cutters are snapping , planks are thrown across the entanglements , we jump through the narrow entrances into the trenches . ]
#2066 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ they were visible from a great distance , and although they grew on one bank only , we called them the poplar avenue . ]
#2101 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ only the mist is cold , this mysterious mist that trails over the dead and sucks from them their last , creeping life . ]
#2285 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " the morning is grey , it was still summer when we came up , and we were one hundred and fifty strong . ]
#2353 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " " white trousers , " say i , " but a girl like that -- " we look askance at one another . ]
#2464 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ they overwhelm us with their chatter ; -- we understand very little of it , but we listen and the words sound friendly . ]
#2527 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ we do it ceremonially , we stretch our legs out in front of us and spit deliberately , that is the only way . ]
#2721 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ it is pleasant to sit quietly somewhere , in the beer garden for example , under the chestnuts by the skittle - alley . ]
#2816 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ many of them are secondhand , all the classics for example , one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig . ]
#2906 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " mittelstaedt continues to upbraid him : " look at boettcher now , there ' s a model for you to learn from . ]
#3447 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ but it is the first since my leave , and besides , the lie of the land is still rather strange to me . ]
#3578 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ then the head tries to raise itself , for a moment the groaning becomes louder , his forehead sinks back upon his arm . ]
#3623 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ this dying man has time with him , he has an invisible dagger with which he stabs me : time and my thoughts . ]
#3669 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ so long as i do not know his name perhaps i may still forget him , time will obliterate it , this picture . ]
#3726 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ there , by the light of a rocket i see something move in the wire , then it stiffens and i lie still . ]
#4059 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " when you have been lying out there in the trenches , surely we can wash a sheet , " she goes on . ]
#4156 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ a damnable position , stretched out full length like that ; -- the only time it is good is when one is asleep . ]
#4390 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ even the death room is no use any more , it is too small ; fellows die during the night in our room . ]
#4458 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ the time is favourable , the doctor ' s visit is over , at the most one of the sisters might come in . ]
#4506 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ we have almost grown accustomed to it ; war is a cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis , like influenza and dysentery . ]
#4539 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ every day and every hour , every shell and every death cuts into this thin support , and the years waste it rapidly . ]
#4581 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ we are in a crater , the english are coming down obliquely , they are turning our flank and working in behind us . ]
#4622 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ our fresh troops are anaemic boys in need of rest , who cannot carry a pack , but merely know how to die . ]
#4629 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ a man can stop a bullet and be killed ; he can get wounded , and then the hospital is his next stop . ]
#4732 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ " kat , in any case we must see one another again , if it is peace - time before you come back . ]
#940 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ the backs of the horses shine in the moonlight , their movements are beautiful , they toss their heads , and their eyes gleam . ]
#1191 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ my lungs are tight , they breathe always the same hot , used - up air , the veins on my temples are swollen . ]
#1942 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ but it is no use , we listen for every explosion that comes close , miscount the tricks , and fail to follow suit . ]
#2072 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ they are always completely calm , that is predominant in them ; and even if they are not really calm , they become so . ]
#3116 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ they seem nervous and fearful , though most of them are big fellows with beards -- they look like meek , scolded , st . ]
#3351 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ " " well , let me tell you , " says albert sourly , " it doesn ' t apply to tramps like you . ]
#3593 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ the eyes shrink back as the hand comes , then they lose their stare , the eyelids droop lower , the tension is past . ]
#3691 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ i must be a printer , i think confusedly , be a printer , printer -- " -- " by afternoon i am calmer . ]
#3873 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ about four o ' clock in the morning we reach a record : all eleven men , guards and visitors , are squatting outside . ]
#322 | T: 21 | I: 5 | [ they have wives , children , occupations , and interests , they have a background which is so strong that the war cannot obliterate it . ]
#4572 | T: 21 | I: 5 | [ he had headed toward germany , that was hopeless , of course -- and , of course , he did everything else just as idiotically . ]
#4598 | T: 21 | I: 5 | [ then , as he goes off grimly , all we can say is : " you ' re mad , " and let him go . ]
#374 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ for six weeks consecutively i did guard every sunday and was hut - orderly for the same length of time . ]
#1523 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ two years of shells and bombs -- a man won ' t peel that off as easy as a sock . ]
#1657 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ no sooner am i on top than the dog is up again as lively as ever and springs at me . ]
#1749 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ after we have been in the dug - outs two hours our own shells begin to fall in the trench . ]
#1837 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there . ]
#2022 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ with the butt of his rifle kat smashes to pulp the face of one of the unwounded machine - gunners . ]
#2035 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ we are so completely played out that in spite of our great hunger we do not think of the provisions . ]
#2087 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ and even if these scenes of our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do . ]
#2113 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ attacks alternate with counter - attacks and slowly the dead pile up in the field of craters between the trenches . ]
#2506 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ the company commander gives me a leave - pass and a travel - pass and wishes me a good journey . ]
#2702 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ six paces from him i spring to a stiff salute and maintain it until i am six paces beyond him . ]
#2719 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ but my father would rather i kept my uniform on so that he could take me to visit his acquaintances . ]
#3966 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ there is an army medical lance - corporal with it who sticks an anti - tetanus needle into our chests . ]
#4031 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ if only the train left one day later kat would be sure to find us and bring us the stuff . ]
#4127 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ i hear from the sister that albert is to be put off at the next station because of his fever . ]
#4397 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ " and josef has to admit that it is the first time he has ever known of such a thing . ]
#4455 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ from a large handbag embroidered with beads she takes out a clean one and makes the child fresh and presentable . ]
#4468 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ two men stand at the door to forestall the sisters and keep them occupied if they chance to come along . ]
#11 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ where tjaden puts it all is a mystery , for he is and always will be as thin as a rake . ]
#567 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ some of them are old hands , but there are twenty - five men of a later draught from the base . ]
#610 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ there are beds in it , or rather bunks -- a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched . ]
#971 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ immediately a second is beside him , a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape -- the airman . ]
#1377 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ he looks at the sky and says only the one sentence : " i would go straight on with the harvesting . ]
#1382 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ every day he reads the papers that come , to see whether it is raining in his little corner of oldenburg . ]
#1420 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ " the satisfaction of months shines in his dull pig ' s eyes as he spits out : " dirty hound ! ]
#1533 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world ; and we had to shoot it to pieces . ]
#1940 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ meanwhile we bind him , but in such a way that in case of attack he can be released at once . ]
#1952 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we seize the hand - grenades , pitch them out in front of the dug - out and jump after them . ]
#2041 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ haie has scored a thin loaf of white french bread , and stuck it in behind his belt like a spade . ]
#2062 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ the image is alarmingly near ; it touches me before it dissolves in the light of the next star - shell . ]
#2068 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we sat beneath them on the bank of the stream and let our feet hang in the bright , swift waters . ]
#2131 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ that is a powerful inducement , but we would do all that is possible without that for his cry is terrible . ]
#2209 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ they flock together like sheep instead of scattering , and even the wounded are shot down like hares by the airmen . ]
#2260 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ " we sharpen their ears to the malicious , hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells that are not easily distinguishable . ]
#2393 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ so we indicate that they should come over to us ; but they shake their heads and point to the bridge . ]
#2626 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we were never very demonstrative in our family ; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so . ]
#2709 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ i go back home and throw my uniform into a corner ; i had intended to change it in any case . ]
#2835 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ i want to feel the same powerful , nameless urge that i used to feel when i turned to my books . ]
#2848 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ i cannot find my way back , i am shut out though i entreat earnestly and put forth all my strength . ]
#2953 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ " besides , his complaint came to nothing because i could show that he had had hardly anything but light duty . ]
#3115 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ it is separated from us by a wire fence , but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us . ]
#3156 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ they come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it ; their fingers hook round the mesh . ]
#3256 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ somewhere or other i put up for the night , somewhere or other i receive provisions and a few vague instructions . ]
#3396 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ to make matters worse , we have to return almost all the new things and take back our old rags again . ]
#3676 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ there are portraits of a woman and a little girl , small amateur photographs taken against an ivy - clad wall . ]
#3680 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ but each word i translate pierces me like a shot in the chest ; -- like a stab in the chest . ]
#3718 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ " when i use my christian name it works as though someone else spoke to me , it has more power . ]
#3782 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ this is an opportunity not only to stretch one ' s legs , but to stretch one ' s soul also . ]
#3812 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ two of our fellows have been out in the fields all the morning hunting for potatoes , carrots and green peas . ]
#3924 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we are marching in column ; the french certainly will not fire on a town in which there are still inhabitants . ]
#3985 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ whatever happens i will not let them chloroform me , even if i have to crack a couple of their skulls . ]
#4380 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ the sisters never have a knife with them when they feed him ; he has already snatched one from a sister . ]
#4443 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ lewandowski has discussed it all with us at great length ; in the army there are no secrets about such things . ]
#4457 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ lewandowski is very fidgety , every now and then he squints across at us most unhappily with his round goggle eyes . ]
#4517 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ if one wants to appraise it , it is at once heroic and banal -- but who wants to do that ? ]
#4555 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ " he replied evasively -- and after a while : " i have a big orchard with cherry trees at home . ]
#474 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ he was the only one of us , too , who could do the giant ' s turn on the horizontal bar . ]
#483 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ it is a strange moment when we stand naked ; then we become civilians , and almost feel ourselves to be so . ]
#550 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ i breathe as deep as i can , and feel the breeze in my face , warm and soft as never before . ]
#680 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " you take it from me , we are losing the war because we can salute too well , " he says . ]
#825 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ haie stood him up again , made ready and fetched him a second , well - aimed beauty with the left hand . ]
#1493 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " " still you must have an occupation of some sort , " insists müller , as though he were kantorek himself . ]
#1604 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ the clink was once a fowl - house ; there we can visit the prisoners , we know how to manage it . ]
#1694 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ there are sights there that he has not forgotten , because he never possessed them -- perplexing , yet lost to him . ]
#2474 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ but i -- i am lost in remoteness , in weakness , and in a passion to which i yield myself trustingly . ]
#2558 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ i recognise the characteristic outline of the dolbenberg , a jagged comb , springing up precipitously from the limits of the forests . ]
#2751 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ they welcome me , a head - master shakes hands with me and says : " so you come from the front ? ]
#2823 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ they are not so well cared for , they are badly thumbed , and pages have been torn out for certain purposes . ]
#2932 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ mittelstaedt stoops down and says reproachfully : " and in the trifles never lose sight of the great adventure , territorial kantorek ! ]
#3067 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ as i am about to leave , she says hastily : " i have two pairs of under - pants for you . ]
#3078 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ here i sit and there you are lying ; we have so much to say , and we shall never say it . ]
#3135 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ some men there are who give them a kick , so that they fall over ; -- but those are not many . ]
#3332 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " " well , if not him alone , then perhaps if twenty or thirty people in the world had said no . ]
#3379 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " there are other people back behind there who profit by the war , that ' s certain , " growls detering . ]
#3459 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ i press myself down on the earth , i cannot go forward , i make up my mind to stay lying there . ]
#3516 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ i lie motionless ; -- somewhere something clanks , it stamps and stumbles nearer -- all my nerves become taut and icy . ]
#3764 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " all the same , " says kat , " it ' s very good for you to see it just now . ]
#3894 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " we put on extraordinary airs , every man treats the other as his valet , bounces him and gives him orders . ]
#3970 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " let ' s hope so , " he replies , " i only wish i knew what i ' ve got . ]
#4169 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ " " all the light cases are up here , that ' s why they do it here , " he replies . ]
#4529 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ thus we live a closed , hard existence of the utmost superficiality , and rarely does an incident strike out a spark . ]
#4532 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ they show us that the adjustment is only artificial , that it is not simple rest , but sharpest struggle for rest . ]
#30 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ close behind us were our friends : tjaden , a skinny locksmith of our own age , the biggest eater of the company . ]
#577 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ " for breakfast , turnip - bread -- lunch , turnip - stew -- supper , turnip - cutlets and turnip - salad . ]
#774 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ he hunted up another piss - a - bed , named kindervater , from a neighbouring unit , and quartered him with tjaden . ]
#1757 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ if a shot comes , we can duck , that is all ; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall . ]
#1863 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ at many places it is only eighteen inches high , it is broken by holes , and craters , and mountains of earth . ]
#2478 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ i let myself drop into the unknown , come what may -- yet , in spite of all , i feel somewhat afraid . ]
#2578 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ walking down the street i know every shop , the grocer ' s , the chemist ' s , the baker ' s . ]
#2602 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ i go into her , give her my hand and say as calmly as i can : " here i am , mother . ]
#4363 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ " " ach , man , " says one of the two wearily , " better your feet than your brain - box . ]
#4576 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ but sometimes it broke out in other ways , this danger , these pent - up things , as from an overheated boiler . ]
#1046 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ it is the moaning of the world , it is the martyred creation , wild with anguish , filled with terror , and groaning . ]
#2010 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ we are insensible , dead men , who through some trick , some dreadful magic , are still able to run and to kill . ]
#2158 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ they slap their knees : " by jove though , he ' s a wit , haie is , he ' s got brains . ]
#2499 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ we see a naked soldier , in boots , just like ourselves ; he has a package under his arm , and gallops onward . ]
#3352 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ " " then i can be going home right away , " retorts tjaden , and we all laugh , " ach , man ! ]
#414 | T: 20 | I: 6 | [ we became hard , suspicious , pitiless , vicious , tough -- and that was good ; for these attributes were just what we lacked . ]
#45 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " and i have cooked for one hundred and fifty men -- " kropp poked him in the ribs . ]
#113 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ i well remembered how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine . ]
#163 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " it is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men . ]
#411 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ so we were put through every conceivable refinement of parade - ground soldiering till we often howled with rage . ]
#415 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad . ]
#639 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " disappointed we lie down and consider whether we couldn ' t have a go at the iron rations . ]
#644 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " someone growls that he will pound tjaden into bog - myrtle if he doesn ' t shut up . ]
#678 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ today we have done an hour ' s saluting drill because tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough . ]
#749 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ it ' s simply that the company commander ' s head has been turned by having so much power . ]
#778 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ the next night they were changed over and the lower one put on top so that he could retaliate . ]
#839 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ it is a warm evening and the twilight seems like a canopy under whose shelter we feel drawn together . ]
#892 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ we shiver and are glad to think that we shall be back in the huts early in the morning . ]
#961 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ the thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar and then breaks up again into separate explosions . ]
#1238 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ what he has gone through so far is nothing to what he ' s in for till he dies . ]
#1776 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ during the night when he switched on his pocket - torch he saw the wire swing to and fro . ]
#1949 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ so we shut our teeth -- it will end -- it will end -- perhaps we will come through . ]
#2060 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ at the right - hand corner the green cathedral spire ascends into the pale blue sky of the evening . ]
#2264 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ haie westhus drags off with a great wound in his back through which the lung pulses at every breath . ]
#2457 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " un moment -- " they disappear and throw us bits of clothing which we gladly wrap round ourselves . ]
#3014 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ in his recruit ' s uniform he leans on a round rustic table with legs made of birch branches . ]
#3034 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " " i would like to tell you to be on your guard against the women out in france . ]
#3399 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ on the way we pass through a devastated wood with the tree trunks shattered and the ground ploughed up . ]
#3660 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ if we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like kat and albert . ]
#3739 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ in russia kat once lay for two days behind the enemy lines before he could make his way back . ]
#3773 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ eight of us have to guard a village that has been abandoned because it is being shelled too heavily . ]
#3791 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ so we zealously set to work to create an idyll -- an idyll of eating and sleeping of course . ]
#3820 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ with a nail we punch a lot of holes in a pot lid and there we have a grater . ]
#3948 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ if that goes up there won ' t be so much as a boot - lace left of us . ]
#4002 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ when i am back again with kropp i tell him that apparently a hospital train comes in tomorrow morning . ]
#4132 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ " on the sister ' s next round i hold my breath and press it up into my head . ]
#4138 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ i would not have been under kat ' s tuition if i did not know what to do now . ]
#4745 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ couldn ' t i shoot myself quickly in the foot so as to be able to go with him . ]
#23 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ in the line we have had next to none , and fourteen days is a long time at one stretch . ]
#105 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ on the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been built , a roofed and durable construction . ]
#124 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home , but here it is the universal language . ]
#169 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ " these teachers always carry their feelings ready in their waistcoat pockets , and trot them out by the hour . ]
#183 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ in the afternoon suddenly we heard him call , and saw him crawling about in no man ' s land . ]
#203 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ before going over to see kemmerich we pack up his things : he will need them on the way back . ]
#209 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ müller shakes his head : " i always told you that nobody should carry as good a watch as that . ]
#318 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ our early life is cut off from the moment we came here , and that without our lifting a hand . ]
#378 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ four hours later i had to report to himmelstoss with my clothes scrubbed clean , my hands chafed and bleeding . ]
#482 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ we are no longer soldiers but little more than boys ; no one would believe that we could carry packs . ]
#533 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the man looks at me and says : " one operation after another since five o ' clock this morning . ]
#535 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ there will probably be twenty altogether -- " i become faint , all at once i cannot do any more . ]
#620 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ kropp asks an artilleryman who has been some time in this neighbourhood : " is there a canteen anywhere abouts ? ]
#730 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ " the question revives kropp , more particularly as he hears there ' s no more beer in the canteen . ]
#1085 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain , their wide open mouths full of anguish . ]
#1151 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ my hand gropes farther , splinters of wood -- now i remember again that we are lying in the graveyard . ]
#1237 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ " the youngster will hardly survive the carrying , and at the most he will only last a few days . ]
#1437 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ haie laughs so much that he dislocates his jaw , and suddenly stands there helpless with his mouth wide open . ]
#1455 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ " kropp is contented now and more accommodating : " how many of us were there in the class exactly ? ]
#1648 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the only thing to do is to get hold of my small revolver , and that too before anyone arrives . ]
#1656 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ at full speed i seize it again , and with a swing toss it over the wall and clamber up . ]
#1670 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ we intend to make two cushions out of them with the inscription : " sleep soft under shell - fire . ]
#1693 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ beyond the sky - line is a country with flowers , lying so still that he would like to weep . ]
#1770 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the rats here are particularly repulsive , they are so fat -- the kind we all call corpse - rats . ]
#1775 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ detering meant to outwit them : he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it . ]
#1792 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ in the adjoining sector they attacked two large cats and a dog , bit them to death and devoured them . ]
#1800 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ we overhaul the bayonets -- that is to say , the ones that have a saw on the blunt edge . ]
#1804 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ some of the recruits have bayonets of this sort ; we take them away and give them the ordinary kind . ]
#1867 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ after an hour the entrance is clear again , and we are calmer because we have had something to do . ]
#2129 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ on the second day the calls are fainter ; that will be because his lips and mouth have become dry . ]
#2168 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ if the women could see at what risk these bits of rag are often obtained , they would be horrified . ]
#2170 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ if anyone else had tried it the thing would have exploded , but tjaden always has his luck with him . ]
#2238 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ i grab him by the neck and shake him like a sack , his head jerks from side to side . ]
#2296 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ i am willing , because i saw how he brought haie westhus in when he was hit in the back . ]
#2413 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ no one can cross the bridge without leave , so we will simply have to swim over to - night . ]
#2450 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the house door opens , a chink of light shines through and a woman cries out in a scared voice . ]
#2470 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ nor do i fully understand her eyes ; they seem to say more than we anticipated when we came here . ]
#2584 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ for a moment i am shy and lower my head , then i take off my helmet and look up . ]
#2628 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ when my mother says to me " dear boy , " it means much more than when another uses it . ]
#2715 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ but how light the suit is , it feels as though i had nothing on but a shirt and underpants . ]
#3157 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ often many stand side by side , and breathe the wind that comes down from the moors and the forest . ]
#3414 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ here hang bits of uniform , and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb . ]
#3500 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ often i think that the sky is becoming lighter on the horizon , but it may be merely my imagination . ]
#3518 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ i have but this one shattering thought : what will you do if someone jumps into your shell - hole ? ]
#3679 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ most of it i do not understand , it is so hard to decipher and i scarcely know any french . ]
#3778 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ but we are mighty lucky all the same , all the other squads have had more casualties than we have . ]
#4105 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ " sister , he wants -- " but no more does albert know how to express it modestly and decently . ]
#4644 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ armoured they come rolling on in long lines , more than anything else embody for us the horror of war . ]
#4651 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ he was with us for two years without being wounded , so that something had to happen in the end . ]
#4718 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ i go as quickly as i can , for the blood from kat ' s wound drips to the ground . ]
#443 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ " " don ' t talk rubbish ; franz , in a couple of days you ' ll see for yourself . ]
#536 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ i won ' t revile any more , it is senseless , i could drop down and never rise up again . ]
#719 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ we had to learn that at lohne , to reach the branch - line , we must pass through a subway . ]
#775 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ in the huts there were the usual bunks , one above the other in pairs , with mattresses of wire netting . ]
#868 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ the roar of the guns makes our lorry stagger , the reverberation rolls raging away to the rear , everything quakes . ]
#1593 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ he tries to evade the question , but in the end has to confess , for kropp tells the same story . ]
#1910 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ " " i ' ll be back in a minute , " says he , and tries to push past me . ]
#2645 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ suddenly my mother seizes hold of my hand and asks falteringly : " was it very bad out there , paul ? ]
#2830 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ pen - holders , a shell as a paper - weight , the ink - well -- here nothing is changed . ]
#3018 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ i go to bed early , i seize the pillow , press it against myself and bury my head in it . ]
#3041 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ " where we are there aren ' t any women , mother , " i say as calmly as i can . ]
#3164 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ they used to have intrigues among themselves , as always happens , and it would often come to blows and knives . ]
#3331 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ " " i ' m sure there would , " i interject , " he was against it from the first . ]
#3730 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ and immediately an answer rings out , my name : " paul -- paul -- " i call again in answer . ]
#3828 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ in the meantime we receive visitors , a couple of wireless - men , who are generously invited to the feed . ]
#4102 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ then albert comes to my rescue , he is not bashful , it makes no difference to him who is upset . ]
#4238 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ franz wachter , alongside him , has a shot in the arm which didn ' t look too bad at first . ]
#4239 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ but the third night he calls out to us , telling us to ring , he thinks he has a haemorrhage . ]
#4477 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ we now feel ourselves like one big family , the woman is happy , and lewandowski lies there sweating and beaming . ]
#4661 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ still he lies and aims again ; -- once he shifts and again takes aim ; at last the rifle cracks . ]
#398 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ " " show you up , corporal , " said kropp , his thumbs in line with the seams of his trousers . ]
#408 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ he did indeed always refer to us as swine , but there was , nevertheless , a certain respect in his tone . ]
#935 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ here the heads become figures ; coats , trousers , and boots appear out of the mist as from a milky pool . ]
#1892 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ faces are distorted , arms strike out , the beasts scream ; we just stop in time to avoid attacking one another . ]
#3454 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ my forehead is wet , the sockets of my eyes are damp , my hands tremble , and i am panting softly . ]
#4552 | T: 19 | I: 4 | [ he made out it was nothing , and i said to him : " don ' t do anything silly , detering . ]
#4420 | T: 19 | I: 6 | [ i see how peoples are set against one another , and in silence , unknowingly , foolishly , obediently , innocently slay one another . ]
#3776 | T: 19 | I: 7 | [ we are just the right people for that ; -- kat , albert , müller , tjaden , detering , our whole gang is there . ]
#9 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ tjaden and müller have produced two washbasins and had them filled up to the brim as a reserve . ]
#128 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ we feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white - tiled " convenience . ]
#505 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then you can look out from the window across the fields to the two trees on the horizon . ]
#513 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ " but franz " -- i put my arm round his shoulder and put my face against his . ]
#720 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the beds represented the subway and each man stood at attention on the left side of his bed . ]
#729 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ " then how does it come that he ' s such a bully as a drill - sergeant ? ]
#746 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ at once the company is turned about and has to do another hour ' s drill as punishment . ]
#920 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ but had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh . ]
#1227 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ kat spreads out two wads of dressing as wide as possible so that they will cover the wound . ]
#1268 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the two fellows take them at the right moment on their poles and lift them over behind us . ]
#1276 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the little beasts are hard and the everlasting cracking with one ' s fingernails very soon becomes wearisome . ]
#1396 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ but he seems to have learned already that the front - line isn ' t a parade ground . ]
#1743 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ when it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn . ]
#1761 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ i went back to the second and arrived just in time to lend a hand digging it out . ]
#1801 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ if the fellows over there catch a man with one of those he ' s killed at sight . ]
#1972 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the moment we are about to retreat three faces rise up from the ground in front of us . ]
#1983 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ if your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb at him . ]
#2069 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the pure fragrance of the water and the melody of the wind in the poplars held our fancies . ]
#2094 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ we had that thrill of expectation in the blood which united us with the course of our days . ]
#2130 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ our company commander has promised next turn of leave with three days extra to anyone who finds him . ]
#2154 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ some have collected so many that they will stoop under the weight of them when we go back . ]
#2269 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ we have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy . ]
#2297 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ besides he ' s decent enough to treat us in the canteen when we are out of funds . ]
#2333 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ she is standing with one hand on a railing and with the other she holds a straw hat . ]
#2512 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ after my leave i have to report for a course of training to a camp on the moors . ]
#2538 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ at the halt we learn that it will be a couple of hours yet before the train leaves . ]
#2579 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then at last i stand before the brown door with its worn latch and my hand grows heavy . ]
#2765 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ in order to make at least some show of appreciation i toss off the beer in one gulp . ]
#2890 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ first thing i did was to take him to the stores and fit him out with suitable equipment . ]
#2924 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ a man might well die easier after the army has given him just one such stroke of luck . ]
#3238 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ he will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until twelve o ' clock at night . ]
#3259 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ i hear we have become one of the flying divisions that are pushed in wherever it is hottest . ]
#3427 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ after all it is not our business to take these stretcher - bearers ' jobs away from them . ]
#3456 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ all my efforts subside like froth into the one desire to be able just to stay lying there . ]
#3501 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then gradually i realise that to crawl in the right direction is a matter of life or death . ]
#3852 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then i grab the plate with the great pile of cakes and squeeze myself behind the house door . ]
#4140 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ all one has to do is to drive the quicksilver up and then it stays without falling again . ]
#4244 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ now no doubt she thinks it is something of the same sort and so she is not coming . ]
#4376 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ once he says he will shoot himself the first time he can get hold of his revolver again . ]
#4423 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ what would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account ? ]
#4431 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ just in the last few weeks he has improved sufficiently to be able to hobble about doubled up . ]
#4547 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then at last he came back and had a couple of branches of cherry blossom in his hand . ]
#4574 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ but what does a court - martial a hundred miles behind the front - line know about it ? ]
#191 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we often made fun of them and played jokes on them , but in our hearts we trusted them . ]
#224 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ under the skin the life no longer pulses , it has already pressed out the boundaries of the body . ]
#229 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ his features have become uncertain and faint , like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken . ]
#264 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ i tread on müller ' s foot ; reluctantly he puts the fine boots back again under the bed . ]
#356 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we became soldiers with eagerness and enthusiasm , but they have done everything to knock that out of us . ]
#491 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ kemmerich ' s face changes colour , it lifts from the pillow and is so pale that it gleams . ]
#580 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ you ' ve been in luck , it ' s nothing new for it to be made of sawdust . ]
#588 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ katczinsky plants himself in front of it like a general and says : " sharp eyes and light fingers ! ]
#606 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ but haie is rather the executive arm , operating under kat ' s orders when things come to blows . ]
#691 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ that would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement , where the wrong people do the fighting . ]
#771 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " tjaden has a special grudge against himmelstoss , because of the way he educated him in the barracks . ]
#781 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ unfortunately it accomplished nothing because the first assumption was wrong : it was not laziness in either of them . ]
#818 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ tjaden unbuttoned himmelstoss ' s braces and pulled down his trousers , holding the whip meantime in his teeth . ]
#1078 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we must get up and run no matter where , but where these cries can no longer be heard . ]
#1143 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ a splinter slashes into my helmet , but has already travelled so far that it does not go through . ]
#1206 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ they have been killed once again ; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us . ]
#1612 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ when we break it up kat says to me : " what do you say to some roast goose ? ]
#1824 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ my eyes turn again and again to the luminous dial of my watch ; the hands will not budge . ]
#1904 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ i have been watching him for a long time , grinding his teeth and opening and shutting his fists . ]
#1908 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ now he stands up , stealthily creeps across the floor hesitates a moment and then glides towards the door . ]
#2055 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ they are not properly thoughts ; they are memories which in my weakness haunt me and strangely move me . ]
#2064 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ the barrel is wet , i take it in my hands and rub off the moisture with my fingers . ]
#2070 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we loved them dearly , and the image of those days still makes my heart pause in its beating . ]
#2142 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we cannot fetch them all in , if we did we should not know what to do with them . ]
#2149 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ when the wind blows toward us it brings the smell of blood , which is very heavy and sweet . ]
#2280 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ he will call a long time , they do not hear him in the hospitals and shell - holes . ]
#2365 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " then leer and tjaden stroll up ; they look at the poster and immediately the conversation becomes smutty . ]
#2395 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ they turn back and walk slowly down the canal , keeping along the tow - path all the way . ]
#2400 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we call out to them that we would like to come , sometime when the guards cannot see us . ]
#2514 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ kat gives me good advice , and tells me i ought to try to get a base - job . ]
#2568 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ on the platform i look round ; i know no one among all the people hurrying to and fro . ]
#2633 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " but a sense of strangeness will not leave me , i cannot feel at home amongst these things . ]
#2723 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ a glass of beer stands in front of me , i ' ve learned to drink in the army . ]
#3012 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ i have to tell how it happened , so i invent a story and i almost believe it myself . ]
#3015 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ behind him a wood is painted on a curtain , and on the table stands a mug of beer . ]
#3066 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " how destitute she lies there in her bed , she that loves me more than all the world . ]
#3088 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ out there i was indifferent and often hopeless ; -- i will never be able to be so again . ]
#3123 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ along with that there sometimes go a few turnip peelings , mouldy bread crusts and all kinds of muck . ]
#3393 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ but that is the end of it ; everything else he criticises from his own practical point of view . ]
#3436 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ the ground lies stark in the pale light , and then the darkness shuts down again blacker than ever . ]
#3511 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ i lie huddled in a large shell - hole , my legs in the water up to the belly . ]
#3633 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ i prop the dead man up again so that he lies comfortably , although he feels nothing any more . ]
#3670 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ but his name , it is a nail that will be hammered into me and never come out again . ]
#3671 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ it has the power to recall this for ever , it will always come back and stand before me . ]
#3682 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ but i realise this much , that i will never dare to write to these people as i intended . ]
#3813 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump , we want fresh vegetables . ]
#3834 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ the observation balloons have spotted the smoke from our chimney , and the shells start to drop on us . ]
#3836 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ they keep dropping closer and closer all round us ; still we cannot leave the grub in the lurch . ]
#4082 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " it is dark , i grope for the edge of the bed and cautiously try to slide down . ]
#4108 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ " says the sister , " but he shouldn ' t climb out of his bed with plaster bandage . ]
#4152 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ that is a piece of luck , the catholic infirmaries are noted for their good treatment and good food . ]
#4153 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ the hospital has been filled up from our train , there are a great many bed cases amongst them . ]
#4323 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ he cries out feebly with his shattered lung : " i won ' t go to the dying room . ]
#4494 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ but now he is over the worst of it , and he often looks on while we play skat . ]
#4538 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades asleep , and thus we wait for the morning . ]
#4567 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ apparently he had noticed that i had been watching him ; -- but the second morning he was gone . ]
#4571 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ a week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes , those despicable military police . ]
#4655 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ if they get so near that they can reach us we are done for , we cannot retreat yet . ]
#4719 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we cannot shelter ourselves properly from the explosions ; before we can take cover the danger is all over . ]
#96 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ and now get on with it , you old blubber - sticker , and don ' t you miscount either . ]
#234 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ kemmerich felt embarrassed , for she was the least composed of all ; she simply dissolved into fat and water . ]
#392 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ " there ' ll be an enquiry first , " he said , " and then we ' ll unload . ]
#829 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ haie looked round once again and said wrathfully , satisfied and rather mysteriously : " revenge is black - pudding . ]
#1164 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ a bell sounds between the explosions , gongs , and metal clappers warning everyone -- gas -- gas -- gaas . ]
#1681 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ we are two men , two minute sparks of life ; outside is the night and the circle of death . ]
#1731 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow , unpolished , brand - new coffins . ]
#1744 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops -- troops , munitions , and guns . ]
#1913 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ then again he has the glowering eyes of a mad dog , he is silent , he shoves me aside . ]
#2263 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ they listen , they are docile -- but when it begins again , in their excitement they do everything wrong . ]
#2632 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ i breathe deeply and say over to myself : -- " you are at home , you are at home . ]
#2679 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ i would like to hit him in the face , but control myself , for my leave depends on it . ]
#2694 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ he gets even more furious : " you think you can bring your front - line manners here , what ? ]
#2905 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ in school kantorek used to chasten mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression -- " inadequate , mittelstaedt , quite inadequate . ]
#2960 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ my mother watches me silently ; -- i know she counts the days ; -- every morning she is sad . ]
#3651 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ so i speak to him and say to him : " comrade , i did not want to kill you . ]
#3779 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ we select , as a dug - out , a reinforced concrete cellar into which steps lead down from above . ]
#3853 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ a hiss , a crash , and i gallop off with the plate clamped against my chest with both hands . ]
#4413 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ the surgeon ' s clerk shows me x - ray photographs of completely smashed hipbones , knees , and shoulders . ]
#912 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ earth with thy folds , and hollows , and holes , into which a man may fling himself and crouch down . ]
#2224 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ when we run out again , although i am very excited , i suddenly think : " where ' s himmelstoss ? ]
#3228 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ " yes , i think bitterly , that ' s how it is with us , and with all poor people . ]
#3273 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ " yes , " he sighs , " yes , if a man didn ' t have to come away again . ]
#3355 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ " " that ' s right , " says kat , " you ' ve said something for once , tjaden . ]
#1456 | T: 18 | I: 5 | [ " we count up : out of twenty , seven are dead , four wounded , one in a mad - house . ]
#2239 | T: 18 | I: 5 | [ " you lump , will you get out -- you hound , you skunk , sneak out of it , would you ? ]
#3275 | T: 18 | I: 5 | [ " i loaf around until the company comes back in the early morning , grey , dirty , soured , and gloomy . ]
#3611 | T: 18 | I: 5 | [ my field dressing covers them , the blood runs out under it , i press it tighter ; there ; he groans . ]
#4404 | T: 18 | I: 5 | [ on the right side of the wing are the jaw wounds , gas cases , nose , ear , and neck wounds . ]
#207 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ he lies in a large room and receives us with feeble expressions of joy and helpless agitation . ]
#272 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we get hold of an orderly outside and ask him to give kemmerich a dose of morphia . ]
#773 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss maintained that it was sheer laziness and invented a method worthy of himself for curing tjaden . ]
#981 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we know we are not far from the sea because we are constantly waked by the cold . ]
#1703 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we take out our collapsible forks and our pocket - knives and each cuts off a leg . ]
#1768 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are no longer in good condition . ]
#1973 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ under one of the helmets a dark pointed beard and two eyes that are fastened on me . ]
#2030 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we cannot stay here long but must retire under cover of our artillery to our own position . ]
#2114 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we are able to bring in most of the wounded that do not lie too far off . ]
#2122 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ and if it were any other kind of wound it would be possible to see him moving . ]
#2203 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ a fold in the ground has to be quite eighteen inches high before they can see it . ]
#2596 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ above me on the wall hangs the glass case with the coloured butterflies that once i collected . ]
#2735 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ i am afraid they might then become gigantic and i be no longer able to master them . ]
#2738 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ but he wants to know whether i have ever had a hand - to - hand fight . ]
#2785 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ he stuffs a few more cigars into my pocket and sends me off with a friendly slap . ]
#2810 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ on the walls are pinned countless pictures that i once used to cut out of the newspapers . ]
#2931 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ " kantorek sweats and spits out a dirty piece of wood that has lodged in his teeth . ]
#2971 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ i bring them to my mother and in that way we all get something decent to eat . ]
#3122 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ only the dregs that the ladle cannot reach are tipped out and thrown into the garbage tins . ]
#3125 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ they pick it out of the stinking tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses . ]
#3163 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the territorials who are in charge of them say that they were much more lively at first . ]
#3199 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the sound of the violin stands like a slender girl above it and is clear and alone . ]
#3428 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ a patrol has to be sent out to discover just how strongly the enemy position is manned . ]
#3800 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ in very short time we have collected a dozen eggs and two pounds of fairly fresh butter . ]
#3891 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ with his nose in the air he explains to us that he was brought up that way . ]
#4013 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ he lies in front of it as though he wants to look out for the last time . ]
#4090 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ " he has fallen out of bed -- " she feels my pulse and smooths my forehead . ]
#4364 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ there ' s no telling what you ' ll get if you go back out there again . ]
#4406 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ here a man realises for the first time in how many places a man can get hit . ]
#4562 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ in order to turn him away from his thoughts i asked him for a piece of bread . ]
#4618 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ our food is bad and mixed up with so much substitute stuff that it makes us ill . ]
#4650 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ he was one of those superb front - line officers who are foremost in every hot place . ]
#4755 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ after a while i begin to sort out the confusion of voices that falls on my ears . ]
#4823 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes . ]
#14 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i have exchanged my chewing tobacco with katczinsky for his cigarettes , which means i have forty altogether . ]
#182 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we couldn ' t bring him with us , because we had to come back helter - skelter . ]
#242 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ under the nails is the dirt of the trenches , it shows through blue - black like poison . ]
#319 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we often try to look back on it and to find an explanation , but never quite succeed . ]
#366 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ he had the reputation of being the strictest disciplinarian in the camp , and was proud of it . ]
#403 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " we obeyed each order , since an order ' s an order and has to be obeyed . ]
#783 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the matter ended in one of them always sleeping on the floor , where he frequently caught cold . ]
#852 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ a wall becomes visible , it belongs to a house which lies on the side of the road . ]
#954 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ it is in perpetual movement , punctuated with the bursts of flame from the nozzles of the batteries . ]
#1086 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ one of the men goes down on one knee , a shot -- one horse drops -- another . ]
#1093 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then only again the rockets , the singing of the shells and the stars there -- most strange . ]
#1182 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ kropp seizes him just in time , twists the hand sharply behind his back and holds it fast . ]
#1265 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the lorries bump through the holes , and we rock to and fro in a half - sleep . ]
#1319 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " " give you a kick in the backside for the way you talk , " i say . ]
#1417 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ he must bring off his insult : " wouldn ' t you like to know what you are ? ]
#1448 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " well , for the time being the war will be over so far as i am concerned . ]
#1568 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " kropp lies back on the grass and says : " have you ever been out here before ? ]
#1599 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then comes tjaden ' s turn , he gets a long sermon and three days ' open arrest . ]
#1639 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then the row begins ; one of them gets his breath and goes off like an alarm clock . ]
#1723 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ tjaden holds a wing in his mouth with both hands like a mouth - organ , and gnaws . ]
#1724 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ he drinks the gravy from the pot and smacks his lips : " may i never forget you ! ]
#1785 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then the torches switch on and every man strikes at the heap , which scatters with a rush . ]
#1825 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ sleep hangs on my eyelids , i work my toes in my boots in order to keep awake . ]
#1878 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ no one gets through , not even a fly is small enough to get through such a barrage . ]
#2086 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ they are strong and our desire is strong -- but they are unattainable , and we know it . ]
#2183 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ all day we have only the normal shelling , so that we are able to repair the trenches . ]
#2201 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ they have had hardly any training , and are sent into the field with only a theoretical knowledge . ]
#2212 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ it brings a lump into the throat to see how they go over , and run and fall . ]
#2335 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ behind her smiles the blue sea with white - horses , at the side is a bright bay . ]
#2340 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we have quite forgotten that there are such things , and even now we hardly believe our eyes . ]
#2366 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ leer was the first of our class to have intercourse , and he gave stirring details of it . ]
#2384 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we try to make jokes and they answer with things we cannot understand ; we laugh and beckon . ]
#2436 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we climb out carefully on the opposite bank , take out the packages and put on our boots . ]
#2453 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the other two are now on the scene , the door opens and the light floods over us . ]
#2468 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ close above me are her bewildering eyes , the soft brown of her skin and her red lips . ]
#2479 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the little brunette contracts her brows when she is thinking ; but when she talks they are still . ]
#2577 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ in this confectioner ' s we used to eat ices , and there we learned to smoke cigarettes . ]
#2580 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i open the door and a strange coolness comes out to meet me , my eyes are dim . ]
#2792 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ at that time i still knew nothing about the war , we had only been in quiet sectors . ]
#2819 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " i read most of them with laudible zeal , but few of them really appealed to me . ]
#3169 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i know nothing of them except that they are prisoners ; and that is exactly what troubles me . ]
#3186 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ on a foggy morning another of the russians is buried ; almost every day one of them dies . ]
#3209 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ it is now definitely cancer , she is already in the hospital and will be operated on shortly . ]
#3341 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ he is still quite excited and again joins the conversation , wondering just how a war gets started . ]
#3342 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " mostly by one country badly offending another , " answers albert with a slight air of superiority . ]
#3375 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ and every full - grown emperor requires at least one war , otherwise he would not become famous . ]
#3430 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we agree on a plan , slip out through the wire and then divide and creep forward separately . ]
#3548 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ but he won ' t do so any more , i can hear that already in his gurgling . ]
#3701 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ yesterday is like a fog to me , there is no hope of ever getting out of this . ]
#3769 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " it was only because i had to lie there with him so long , " i say . ]
#3849 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then kat and kropp seize the masterpiece -- the big dish with the brown , roasted sucking pigs . ]
#4003 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " we must work the army medical sergeant - major so that we can keep together , albert . ]
#4061 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ all the same the woman is a tormentor , she is going to force me to say it . ]
#4141 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i stick the thermometer under my arm at a slant , and flip it steadily with my forefinger . ]
#4166 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " no doubt it is well meant , but it gives us aches in our heads and bones . ]
#4430 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ he is forty , and has already lain ten months in the hospital with a severe abdominal wound . ]
#4704 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ anyway , i don ' t know of a stretcher - bearer ' s post in the neighbourhood . ]
#4714 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ " i raise him up , he stands on the uninjured leg and supports himself against a tree . ]
#494 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ he whispers : " if you find my watch , send it home -- " i do not reply . ]
#1349 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ " " some ways , " says he , and with open mouth sinks into a day - dream . ]
#1963 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ they throw as fast as they can , others pass them , the handles with the strings already pulled . ]
#2005 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ if we were not automata at that moment we would continue lying there , exhausted , and without will . ]
#2111 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ i remain quiet , though the others are in a better mood , for the shelling has died down . ]
#2234 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ he draws up his legs , crouches back against the wall , and shows his teeth like a cur . ]
#2845 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ images float through my mind , but they do not grip me , they are mere shadows and memories . ]
#2898 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ the black , worn breeches are just as much too short ; they reach barely halfway down his calf . ]
#2900 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ but as a compensation the cap is too small , a terribly dirty , mean little pill - box . ]
#3159 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ they are more human and more brotherly towards one another , it seems to me , than we are . ]
#3434 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ it sweeps across from all directions , not very heavy , but always sufficient to make one keep down . ]
#3652 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ if you jumped in here again , i would not do it , if you would be sensible too . ]
#3914 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ she is coming with us , and lies in the cage before her saucer of meat , and purrs . ]
#3939 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ " let ' s get away , or i ' ll fall in and drown , " groans albert . ]
#3996 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ he is a fair fellow , not more than thirty years old , with scars and disgusting gold spectacles . ]
#4049 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ " why yes , " i say in a sweat , " but take off the bed cover first . ]
#4191 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ then i take hold of a bottle , aim , and heave it through the door into the corridor . ]
#4523 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ were we more subtly differentiated we must long since have gone mad , have deserted , or have fallen . ]
#4556 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ when they are in blossom , from the hay loft they look like one single sheet , so white . ]
#4666 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ leer groans as he supports himself on his arm , he bleeds quickly , no one can help him . ]
#4765 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ my eyes are still dulled , the sweat breaks out on me again , it runs over my eyelids . ]
#4821 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ let the months and years come , they can take nothing from me , they can take nothing more . ]
#81 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ he informed himself of the dispute , and only remarked : " yes , we did have heavy losses yesterday . ]
#204 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ in the dressing station there is great activity : it reeks as ever of carbolic , pus , and sweat . ]
#301 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ kropp has calmed himself ; we understand , he saw red ; out here every man gets like that sometime . ]
#699 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ all one hears is the drummers practising ; they have installed themselves somewhere and practise brokenly , dully , monotonously . ]
#1917 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ then he begins to rave : " leave me alone , let me go out , i will go out ! ]
#2849 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ nothing stirs ; listless and wretched , like a condemned man , i sit there and the past withdraws itself . ]
#3630 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ i wish the gurgling were there again , gasping , hoarse , now whistling softly and again hoarse and loud . ]
#4416 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ how senseless is everything that can ever be written , done , or thought , when such things are possible . ]
#4474 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ after a while the child begins to squall , although albert , in desperation , rocks it to and fro . ]
#4568 | T: 17 | I: 4 | [ i noticed it , but said nothing , in order to give him time ; he might perhaps get through . ]
#368 | T: 17 | I: 5 | [ he had a special dislike of kropp , tjaden , westhus , and me , because he sensed a quiet defiance . ]
#705 | T: 17 | I: 5 | [ o dark , musty platoon huts , with the iron bedsteads , the chequered bedding , the lockers and the stools ! ]
#8 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ he does not see how he can empty his stew - pot in time for coffee . ]
#125 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ enforced publicity has in our eyes restored the character of complete innocence to all these things . ]
#239 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ " you would have had to wait at least three or four months for your leave . ]
#269 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ he is thinking of the lace - up boots and means to be on the spot . ]
#334 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land . ]
#554 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the earth is streaming with forces which pour into me through the soles of my feet . ]
#566 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the vacancies have been filled and the sacks of straw in the huts are already booked . ]
#710 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ those early morning hours of instruction -- " what are the parts of the 98 rifle ? ]
#756 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ and the more insignificant a man has been in civil life the worse it takes him . ]
#776 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss put these two so that one occupied the upper and the other the lower bunk . ]
#846 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we dare not show a light so we lurch along and are often almost pitched out . ]
#903 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ " perhaps it is our inner and most secret life that shivers and falls on guard . ]
#1114 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we duck down -- a cloud of flame shoots up a hundred yards ahead of us . ]
#1116 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the shells begin to hiss like safety - valves -- heavy fire -- " take cover ! ]
#1163 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the dull thud of the gas - shells mingles with the crashes of the high explosives . ]
#1180 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the coffin has hit the fourth man in our hole on his out - stretched arm . ]
#1461 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ " what do you mean by the three - fold theme in " william tell ' ? ]
#1476 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ " how do you expect to succeed in life if you don ' t know that ? ]
#1498 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ kat and detering and haie will go back to their jobs because they had them already . ]
#1588 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ i have to appear as a witness and explain the reason of tjaden ' s insubordination . ]
#1619 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the out - house is behind the wall and the door shuts with just a peg . ]
#1747 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ besides these they have brought up a number of those little french beasts with instantaneous fuses . ]
#1888 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ through the entrance rushes in a swarm of fleeing rats that try to storm the walls . ]
#1898 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ three people have had the luck to get through during the night and bring some provisions . ]
#1944 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we sit as though in a boiler that is being belaboured from without on all sides . ]
#2000 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ he runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain . ]
#2009 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we can hardly control ourselves when our glance lights on the form of some other man . ]
#2065 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ between the meadows behind our town there stands a line of old poplars by a stream . ]
#2112 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the days go by and the incredible hours follow one another as a matter of course . ]
#2121 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ his chest cannot have been injured otherwise he would not have such strength to cry out . ]
#2169 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ kat surprises tjaden endeavouring with perfect equanimity to knock the driving - band off a dud . ]
#2228 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ but it makes me mad that the young recruits should be out there and he here . ]
#2528 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ how it all rises up before a man when he is going away the next morning ! ]
#2736 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ what would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us ? ]
#2764 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ all the same i feel annoyed and smoke like a chimney as hard as i can . ]
#2885 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ he was killed three months before he would have been called up in the ordinary way . ]
#2965 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ that is a great favour and people line up early in the morning and stand waiting . ]
#3101 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ among the junipers and the birch trees on the moor we practise company drill each day . ]
#3111 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ it is when one is alone that one begins to observe nature and to love her . ]
#3176 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ and yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free . ]
#3248 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ i put the bag back in my pack and take only two cakes to the russians . ]
#3390 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ " he is quite proud of himself because he has scored for once over us volunteers . ]
#3481 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ the night is windy and shadows flit hither and thither in the flicker of the gunfire . ]
#3731 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ it is kat and albert who have come out with a stretcher to look for me . ]
#3832 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ all the same it moves us as we stand at the fireplace preparing the good things . ]
#3844 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ at last everything is ready and we organise the transport of it back to the dugout . ]
#3859 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ at ten o ' clock we throw the bones of the sucking pigs outside the door . ]
#3883 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ what does it matter anyhow -- in a while it will all be blown to pieces . ]
#3934 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ with one bound 1 follow him and fall into a ditch that lies behind the hedge . ]
#4149 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ i know perfectly well my plaster bandage will not be reopened if it can be avoided . ]
#4359 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ a lot of them have been here all the time since ' fourteen and ' fifteen . ]
#4384 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we call for help and three men are necessary to take the fork away from him . ]
#4411 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ other men lie in stretching bandages with heavy weights hanging from the end of the bed . ]
#4424 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ what do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over ? ]
#4668 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ what use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school . ]
#99 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ when things get beyond him he throws up the sponge altogether ; he just goes to pieces . ]
#181 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ he got hit in the eye during an attack , and we left him lying for dead . ]
#205 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we are accustomed to a good deal in the billets , but this makes us feel faint . ]
#290 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ if he passes out in the night , we know where the boots -- " kropp returns . ]
#361 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we learned in fact that some of these things were necessary , but the rest merely show . ]
#428 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ i nod and answer : " you must be thankful you ' ve come off with that . ]
#457 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ after a pause he says slowly : " i wanted to become a head - forester once . ]
#459 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " there are splendid artificial limbs now , you ' d hardly know there was anything missing . ]
#464 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ then he says : " you can take my lace - up boots with you for müller . ]
#481 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ but when we go bathing and strip , suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders . ]
#534 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ you know , to - day alone there have been sixteen deaths -- yours is the seventeenth . ]
#743 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ take a simple case : we are marching back from the parade - ground dog - tired . ]
#745 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we sing spiritlessly , for it is all we can do to trudge along with our rifles . ]
#747 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ on the march back the order to sing is given again , and once more we start . ]
#922 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ if it were not so , there would notice one man alive from flanders to the vosges . ]
#956 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ french rockets go up , which unfold a silk parachute to the air and drift slowly down . ]
#988 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the old veteran , he sits quietly and smokes his pipe -- a covered pipe of course . ]
#1014 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ and though there is plenty of meat there , a shot in it can be damned painful . ]
#1094 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ detering walks up and down cursing : " like to know what harm they ' ve done . ]
#1168 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ all four of us lie there in heavy , watchful suspense and breathe as lightly as possible . ]
#1169 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ these first minutes with the mask decide between life and death : is it air - tight ? ]
#1173 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ like a big , soft jellyfish it floats into our shell - hole and lolls there obscenely . ]
#1282 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ haie has a particularly fine brand of louse : they have a red cross on their heads . ]
#1443 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " the least you ' ll get will be five days close arrest , " says kat . ]
#1460 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " we guess not : we wouldn ' t let ourselves be sat on for that matter . ]
#1596 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we are silent : he must know himself how much use it is in reporting such things . ]
#1685 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ it takes a long time to roast a goose , even when it is young and fat . ]
#1689 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the noises without increase in volume , pass into my dream and yet linger in my memory . ]
#1727 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the outlines of the huts are upon us in the dawn like a dark , deep sleep . ]
#1941 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ kat suggests a game of skat : it is easier when a man has something to do . ]
#2001 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ it does not come quite to hand - to - hand fighting ; they are driven back . ]
#2176 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the birds too are just as carefree , they have long since accustomed themselves to the war . ]
#2187 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ a few minutes after they appear , shrapnel and high - explosives begin to drop on us . ]
#2188 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we lose eleven men in one day that way , and five of them stretcher - bearers . ]
#2200 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they are one of the new regiments , composed almost entirely of young fellows just called up . ]
#2303 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment : good food and rest . ]
#2380 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they are not specially wonderful pieces , but then where are such to be had about here ? ]
#2407 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ and other tasty bits too , we roll our eyes and try to explain with our hands . ]
#2459 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ a small lamp burns in their room , which is warm and smells a little of perfume . ]
#2700 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ but i cannot say anything to him ; he could put me under arrest if he liked . ]
#2726 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the sky is blue , between the leaves of the chestnuts rises the green spire of st . ]
#2799 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ formerly i lived in just the same way myself , but now i feel no contact here . ]
#2806 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ i must think of kat and albert and müller and tjaden , what will they be doing ? ]
#2917 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ ' " then mittelstaedt makes them practise skirmishing , and as a favour appoints kantorek squad leader . ]
#3007 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " " are you willing never to come back yourself , if it isn ' t true ? ]
#3131 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they are all rather feeble , for they only get enough nourishment to keep them from starving . ]
#3133 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they have dysentery ; furtively many of them display the blood - stained tails of their shirts . ]
#3181 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ i take out my cigarettes , break each one in half and give them to the russians . ]
#3193 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ there is a musician amongst them , he says he used to be a violinist in berlin . ]
#3279 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ i have an uneasy conscience when i look at them , and yet without any good reason . ]
#3319 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " none of us is quite sure about it , but we don ' t suppose so . ]
#3348 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " " are you really as stupid as that , or are you just pulling my leg ? ]
#3551 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ if it is not soon it will be too light ; it will be difficult enough now . ]
#3583 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ he must have heard me , for he gazes at me with a look of utter terror . ]
#3709 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ i think no more of the dead man , he is of no consequence to me now . ]
#3767 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " you don ' t need to lose any sleep over your affair , " nods albert . ]
#3909 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they stand inside the bed , and we sprawl back in them as in a theatre box . ]
#4062 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ " it is only -- " i try again , surely she must know what i mean . ]
#4281 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ a man cannot really complain , here he is treated by the nuns exactly like a civilian . ]
#4309 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ one old woman will not go away , but she cannot stay there the whole night through . ]
#4362 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ you take my word , he won ' t dare to do it if you say no . ]
#4365 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ they can do with me just as they please , so long as i get back home . ]
#4403 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ on the next floor below are the abdominal and spine cases , head wounds and double amputations . ]
#4425 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ through the years our business has been killing ; -- it was our first calling in life . ]
#4440 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ in the meantime she has given birth to a child , whom she is bringing with her . ]
#4611 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we have been able to bury müller , but he is not likely to remain long undisturbed . ]
#4710 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ all the same i urge him to let us go on , for the place is dangerous . ]
#4780 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ on the way without my having noticed it , kat has caught a splinter in the head . ]
#151 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ and so everything is new and brave , red poppies and good food , cigarettes and summer breeze . ]
#171 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ there was , indeed , one of us who hesitated and did not want to fall into line . ]
#333 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ we , however , have been gripped by it and do not know what the end may be . ]
#489 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ this atmosphere of carbolic and gangrene clogs the lungs , it is a thick gruel , it suffocates . ]
#498 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ this forehead with its hollow temples , this mouth that now seems all teeth , this sharp nose ! ]
#906 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ from the earth , from the air , sustaining forces pour into us -- mostly from the earth . ]
#1315 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " they won ' t lack for that , kat , you ' d scrounge it from somewhere . ]
#1467 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " you ' ll never make anything of your life , bã ¤ umer , " croaks müller . ]
#2106 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ they cannot persist without solace , without illusion , they are disordered before the naked picture of despair . ]
#2341 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ we have seen nothing like it for years , nothing like it for happiness , beauty and joy . ]
#2354 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ there ' s not much to boast of here -- two ragged , stained , and dirty uniforms . ]
#2403 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ they raise their hands , put them together , rest their faces on them and shut their eyes . ]
#2722 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ the leaves fall down on the table and on the ground , only a few , the first . ]
#2805 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ -- they are different men here , men i cannot properly understand , whom i envy and despise . ]
#2824 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ then below are periodicals , papers , and letters all jammed in together with drawings and rough sketches . ]
#2826 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ it is still in the room , i feel it at once , the walls have preserved it . ]
#2956 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " he ' s too stupid , i couldn ' t be bothered , " answers mittelstaedt contemptuously . ]
#3073 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ i know what these under - pants have cost you in waiting , and walking , and begging ! ]
#3137 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ occasionally , when they are too grovelling , it makes a man mad and then he kicks them . ]
#3298 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ i score a spotless new tunic out of it and kat , of course , an entire outfit . ]
#3333 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " " that ' s probable , " i agree , " but they damned well said yes . ]
#3389 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " ' true , " assents tjaden , " but no war at all would be better still . ]
#3395 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " " it won ' t make any difference , that ' s sure , " agrees kat . ]
#3405 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ there is only half of him sitting up there , the top half , the legs are missing . ]
#3409 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " it ' s funny , " says kat , " we have seen that several times now . ]
#3423 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ " no more is a shell splinter in the belly , " he replies , shrugging his shoulders . ]
#3619 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ hunger devours me , i could almost weep for something to eat , i cannot struggle against it . ]
#3850 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ a screech , a knee bend , and away they race over the fifty yards of open country . ]
#4515 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ first we are soldiers and afterwards , in a strange and shamefaced fashion , individual men as well . ]
#4662 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ bertinck lets the gun drop and says : " good , " and slips back into the hole . ]
#4746 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ suddenly kat gurgles and turns green and yellow , " let us go on , " he stammers . ]
#752 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ that , of course , is only a trifling instance , but it holds also in very different affairs . ]
#1361 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ " " you ' ll never be a non - com , though , haie , " interrupts kat . ]
#1964 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ haie throws seventy - five yards , kropp sixty , it has been measured , the distance is important . ]
#2096 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ we are burnt up by hard facts ; like tradesmen we understand distinctions , and like butchers , necessities . ]
#2438 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ and so , all wet and naked , clothed only in our boots , we break into a trot . ]
#3052 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ " " yes , mother , perhaps i can get into the cookhouse , that can easily be done . ]
#3438 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ that is nasty , it is hard to see them ; they are very good at patrolling , too . ]
#3951 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ " you go , i ' ll come on after , " he says , and throws himself down . ]
#4237 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ peter , a curly black - haired fellow , has the worst injury ; -- a severe lung wound . ]
#4723 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ " well , kat , " i say gloomily , " we are going to be separated at last . ]
#1771 | T: 16 | I: 5 | [ they have shocking , evil , naked faces , and it is nauseating to see their long , nude tails . ]
#4812 | T: 16 | I: 5 | [ now if we go back we will be weary , broken , burnt out , rootless , and without hope . ]
#2650 | T: 16 | I: 6 | [ -- you , mother , -- i shake my head and say : " no , mother , not so very . ]
#12 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ what ' s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes . ]
#65 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ " eighty men can ' t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty . ]
#165 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i have always taken good care to keep out of sections with small company commanders . ]
#215 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ " not so bad ... but i have such a damned pain in my foot . ]
#295 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i think of the letter that i must write tomorrow to kemmerich ' s mother . ]
#422 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ a hospital tram has arrived and the wounded fit to be moved are being selected . ]
#473 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ at school he used to wear a brown coat with a belt and shiny sleeves . ]
#519 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i sit tensely and watch his every movement in case he may perhaps say something . ]
#549 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ outside the door i am aware of the darkness and the wind as a deliverance . ]
#615 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ kat looks at the place and then says to haie westhus " come with me . ]
#664 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ kat knows the way to roast horse - flesh so that it ' s tender . ]
#834 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ that evening ' s work made us more or less content to leave next morning . ]
#952 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ we skirt a small wood and then have the front - line immediately before us . ]
#967 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ last autumn the wild geese flew day after day across the path of the shells . ]
#1062 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ if we could only see the animals we should be able to endure it better . ]
#1126 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ by the light of the shells i try to get a view of the fields . ]
#1142 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i sink down in the black broth and immediately come up to the top again . ]
#1190 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ inside the gas - mask my head booms and roars -- it is nigh bursting . ]
#1242 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ and to whom does it matter whether he has them or not - i nod . ]
#1438 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ albert has to put it back again by giving it a blow with his fist . ]
#1755 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ we lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty . ]
#1831 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ but that interests us less than what we hear of the new flame - throwers . ]
#1844 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ slowly the grey light trickles into the post and pales the flashes of the shells . ]
#1967 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ they have already suffered heavily when they reach the remnants of the barbed wire entanglements . ]
#2050 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the white vapour creeps painfully round before it ventures to steal away over the edge . ]
#2125 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the first night some of our fellows go out three times to look for him . ]
#2165 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ according to the size of the bust three or perhaps four will make a blouse . ]
#2428 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ we each get hold of a whole army loaf and wrap it up in newspaper . ]
#2509 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ it is not enough and i ask whether i cannot have five days for travelling . ]
#2630 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ she must have got them cheap some time and put them all by for me . ]
#2651 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ there are always a lot of us together so it isn ' t so bad . ]
#2763 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ and they are all so dripping with good will that it is impossible to object . ]
#2771 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ " i reply that in our opinion a break - through may not be possible . ]
#2886 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ if it had not been for you he would have lived just that much longer . ]
#2926 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ after a while mittelstaedt stops the skirmish and begins the very important exercise of creeping . ]
#3099 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ if we come back late from the soldiers ' home we have to show passes . ]
#3160 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ but perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us . ]
#3194 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ when he hears that i can play the piano he fetches his violin and plays . ]
#3198 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ they are like a country of dark hills that sing far down under the ground . ]
#3257 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ and so with my pack and my rifle i set out again on the way . ]
#3320 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ they are both so exalted that standing strictly to attention is probably not insisted on . ]
#3360 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ now just why would a french blacksmith or a french shoemaker want to attack us ? ]
#3552 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ then as i try to raise up my head i see it is impossible already . ]
#3702 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i fall into a doze and do not at first realise that evening is approaching . ]
#3713 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i will call out as soon as i can so that they will recognise me . ]
#3748 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ it was mere drivelling nonsense that i talked out there in the shell - hole . ]
#3751 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ they rest their rifles with telescopic sights on the parapet and watch the enemy front . ]
#3774 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ in particular we have to watch the supply dump as that is not empty yet . ]
#4011 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ one of them sings hymns in a high cracked tenor before he begins to gurgle . ]
#4020 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ although i feel pretty bad i do not let our scheme out of my mind . ]
#4034 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ but we are so weak that we cannot work up any more excitement about it . ]
#4036 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant - major sees to it that we are put in the same car . ]
#4259 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ they certainly have a great deal to do and are all overworked day after day . ]
#4348 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ he goes absolutely crazy whenever he can get hold of anyone to do it on . ]
#4631 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ if you have any pluck you don ' t need to run at the front . ]
#4733 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ " " do you think that i will be marked al again with this leg ? ]
#2 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ yesterday we were relieved , and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans . ]
#412 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ many of us became ill through it ; wolf actually died of inflammation of the lung . ]
#529 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " he frees himself and asks an orderly standing by : " which will that be ? ]
#541 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the orderly pokes me in the ribs , " are you taking his things with you ? ]
#640 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ but it ' s too risky ; so we try to get a wink of sleep . ]
#662 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ but katczinsky doesn ' t even see him , he might as well be thin air . ]
#739 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the army is based on that ; one man must always have power over the other . ]
#742 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ and because they know they can , they all soon acquire the habit more or less . ]
#856 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ a glance at katczinsky -- a glance from him to me ; we understand one another . ]
#1123 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ darknesses blacker than the night rush on us with giant strides , over us and away . ]
#1127 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ they are a surging sea , daggers of flame from the explosions leap up like fountains . ]
#1146 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ shells hardly ever land in the same hole twice , i ' ll get into it . ]
#1285 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ but he gets little response to - day ; we are too preoccupied with another affair . ]
#1299 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " " there won ' t be any peace - time , " says albert bluntly . ]
#1713 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " how would it be , kat if we took a bit to kropp and tjaden ? ]
#1789 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ at last the beasts get wise to it , or perhaps they have scented the blood . ]
#1791 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ nevertheless , before morning the remainder of the bread on the floor has been carried off . ]
#1853 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ it is good that it is growing daylight ; perhaps the attack will come before noon . ]
#1951 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the shelling continues but it has lifted and falls behind us , our trench is free . ]
#2013 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ a second sees it and tries to run farther ; a bayonet jabs into his back . ]
#2204 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ although we need reinforcement , the recruits give us almost more trouble than they are worth . ]
#2218 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ we found one dug - out full of them , with blue heads and black lips . ]
#2326 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ even so we cannot hold out much longer ; our humour becomes more bitter every month . ]
#2376 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ they walk slowly and don ' t look away , although we have no bathing suits . ]
#2386 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ he runs into the house , gets a loaf of army bread and holds it up . ]
#2532 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ at first i am at a loss to understand , then it suddenly dawns on me . ]
#2566 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ then the train stops , and there is the station with noise and cries and signboards . ]
#2571 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " -- she calls me " comrade , " but i will have none of it . ]
#2655 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " she does not know what she is saying , she is merely anxious for me . ]
#2689 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " but i have had more than enough and say : " between langemark and bixschoote . ]
#2766 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ immediately a second is ordered ; people know how much they are indebted to the soldiers . ]
#2911 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ but i grin at him innocently , as though i do not recognise him any more . ]
#2962 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ she has put away my pack , she does not want to be reminded by it . ]
#3024 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ at last i can bear it no longer , and pretend i have just wakened up . ]
#3100 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ but those who are on good terms with the guard can get through , of course . ]
#3130 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ it is distressing to watch their movements , to see them begging for something to eat . ]
#3141 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ often they have fair success , because they have very good boots and ours are bad . ]
#3210 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the doctors hope she will recover , but we have never heard of cancer being cured . ]
#3381 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " no one in particular wants it , and then all at once there it is . ]
#3425 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ all this can only have happened a little while ago , the blood is still fresh . ]
#3494 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ perhaps i am crawling parallel to the lines , and that might go on for ever . ]
#3606 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the shirt is stuck and will not come away , it is buttoned at the back . ]
#3638 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ no doubt his wife still thinks of him ; she does not know what has happened . ]
#3645 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ perhaps by this act she becomes mine , i wish kantorek were sitting here beside me . ]
#3662 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " it is quiet , the front is still except for the crackle of rifle fire . ]
#3761 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ " or rather he will soon be made acting sergeant - major , " says kat . ]
#3861 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ tjaden says that it lacks only one thing : girls from an officer ' s brothel . ]
#3935 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ our faces are smothered with duck - weed and mud , but the cover is good . ]
#4314 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ his temperature chart looks bad , and one day the flat trolley stands beside his bed . ]
#4402 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ so i sometimes escape to the corridor ; -- there i can move about more freely . ]
#4454 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ then she produces the child , which in the intervals has done something in its napkin . ]
#4465 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ we grin good - naturedly and make pooh - poohing gestures , what does it matter ! ]
#4519 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ we have discussed it at length , whether it is right or not to do so . ]
#4624 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ they understand nothing about warfare , they simply go on and let themselves be shot down . ]
#4660 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ he fires -- the same moment a bullet smacks into him , they have got him . ]
#4822 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ i am so alone , and so without hope that i can confront them without fear . ]
#109 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ they are square , neat boxes with wooden sides all round , and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats . ]
#324 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ besides this there was little else -- some enthusiasm , a few hobbies , and our school . ]
#543 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ he goes on : " we must take him away at once , we want the bed . ]
#933 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ the heads and the rifles stand out above the white mist , nodding heads , rocking barrels . ]
#986 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ i put my hand to my eyes , it is so fantastic , am i a child ? ]
#987 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ smooth skin ; -- it lasts only a second , then i recognise the silhouette of katczinsky . ]
#1587 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ in the orderly room sits our lieutenant , bertink , and calls us in one after another . ]
#2274 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ the lorries stop , we climb out -- a confused heap , a remnant of many names . ]
#2536 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ next morning , after i have been de - loused , i go to the rail head . ]
#2609 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " here i lie now , " says she , " and cry instead of being glad . ]
#2643 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " not always quite as much as that , of course , but we fare reasonably well . ]
#2745 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ and after all , you do at least get decent food out there , so i hear . ]
#2833 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ i feel excited ; but i do not want to be , for that is not right . ]
#2853 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ then i take one of the books , intending to read , and turn over the leaves . ]
#2873 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ he stretches out his paw to me and bleats : ' hullo mittelstaedt , how are you ? ]
#2902 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ mittelstaedt stops in front of him : " territorial kantorek , do you call those buttons polished ? ]
#2944 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " " excellent , " i say , " but hasn ' t he reported you yet ? ]
#3277 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ there is tjaden , there is müller blowing his nose , and there are kat and kropp . ]
#3402 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " trench mortars , " he replies , and then points up at one of the trees . ]
#3663 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ the bullets rain over , they are not fired haphazard , but shrewdly aimed from all sides . ]
#3893 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ in the morning his first call is : " emil , bring in the caviare and coffee . ]
#3953 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " up , albert , if once you lie down you ' ll never get any farther . ]
#4033 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ in our bellies there is gruel , mean hospital stuff , and in our bags roast pork . ]
#4176 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ " we are saying prayers , that is why the door is open , " she responds . ]
#4187 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ i feel savage , and say : " i ' m going to count up to three . ]
#4296 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ it is more convenient , too , because it lies right beside the lift to the mortuary . ]
#4408 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ their skin turns pale , their limbs stiffen , at last only their eyes live -- stubbornly . ]
#4521 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ such things are real problems , they are serious matters to us , they cannot be otherwise . ]
#4603 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ it is true , such things are often simulated , but the pretence itself is a symptom . ]
#4671 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ the days stand like angels in blue and gold , incomprehensible , above the ring of annihilation . ]
#4781 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ there is just one little hole , it must have been a very tiny , stray splinter . ]
#13 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ ten cigars , twenty cigarettes , and two quids of chew per man ; now that is decent . ]
#959 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ immediately fresh ones shoot up in the sky , and again green , red , and blue stars . ]
#1470 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ " you lack the studious mind , kropp , sit down , three minus -- " i say . ]
#2275 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ on either side stand people , dark , calling out the numbers of the brigades , the battalions . ]
#2676 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ " sorry , major , " i say in embarrassment , " i didn ' t notice you . ]
#3315 | T: 15 | I: 4 | [ " he meditates : " hindenburg too , he has to stand up stiff to him , eh ? ]
#917 | T: 15 | I: 5 | [ it is not conscious ; it is far quicker , much more sure , less fallible , than consciousness . ]
#2197 | T: 15 | I: 5 | [ attack , counter - attack , charge , repulse -- these are words , but what things they signify ! ]
#115 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties . ]
#118 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i no longer understand why we should always have shied at these things before . ]
#121 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines . ]
#123 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ it is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily . ]
#194 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we had to recognise that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs . ]
#387 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he planted himself in front of us and asked how we liked the job . ]
#461 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ you can move the fingers and work and even write with an artificial hand . ]
#642 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ tjaden gives an account of his national dish -- broad - beans and bacon . ]
#661 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he wonders whether to praise kat and so perhaps gam a little for himself . ]
#766 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ it is an iron law that the soldier must be employed under every circumstance . ]
#822 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ finally haie stood himmelstoss on his feet again and gave one last personal remonstrance . ]
#862 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he knows all about every leg of goose within a radius of fifteen miles . ]
#916 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ by the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected . ]
#953 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ an uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline from one end to the other . ]
#1006 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the crack of the guns is heard long after the roar of the explosions . ]
#1275 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ five killing each separate louse is a tedious business when a man has hundreds . ]
#1383 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ they haven ' t brought in the hay yet at this moment himmelstoss appears . ]
#1540 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ it is queer that almost all of the regular sergeant - majors are fat . ]
#1663 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we intend to roast it at once so that nobody will be any wiser . ]
#1754 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen . ]
#1780 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the slices we cut off are heaped together in the middle of the floor . ]
#1787 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we toss the bits of rat over the parapet and again lie in wait . ]
#1822 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ above me the rockets and parachute - lights shoot up and float down again . ]
#1870 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he says that an attempt will be made to bring up food this evening . ]
#1879 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we pull in our belts tighter and chew every mouthful three times as long . ]
#1916 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ just as the recruit shakes me off kat jumps in and we hold him . ]
#1965 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the enemy as they run cannot do much before they are within forty yards . ]
#2016 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he is left behind with a few other prisoners to carry off the wounded . ]
#2077 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we are never so far off that it is no more to be heard . ]
#2095 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ to - day we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travellers . ]
#2102 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ by morning they will be pale and green and their blood congealed and black . ]
#2109 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ then i go into the dug - out and find a mug of barley . ]
#2120 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ kat thinks he has either a broken pelvis or a shot through the spine . ]
#2196 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ soon we are sitting up once more with the rigid tenseness of blank anticipation . ]
#2409 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ if it were necessary we would promise them a whole quartermaster ' s store . ]
#2550 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles . ]
#2637 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ " i suppose you can make some use of that -- " they nod . ]
#2672 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ on my way back from the barracks a loud voice calls out to me . ]
#2673 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ still lost in thought i turn round and find myself confronted by a major . ]
#2710 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ then i take out my civilian clothes from the wardrobe and put them on . ]
#2832 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i will sit here just like this and look at my room and wait . ]
#2910 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ kantorek shoots a glance at me as if he would like to eat me . ]
#2915 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i cannot reconcile this with the menacing figure at the schoolmaster ' s desk . ]
#2972 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the days grow ever more strained and my mother ' s eyes more sorrowful . ]
#3008 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ " " may i never come back if he wasn ' t killed instantaneously . ]
#3023 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ she sits long into the night although she is in pain and often writhes . ]
#3143 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the peasants among us who get titbits sent from home can afford to trade . ]
#3145 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ but most of the russians have long since parted with whatever things they had . ]
#3258 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ by the time i come up they are no longer in the devastated place . ]
#3282 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i keep those for myself and give the fresh ones to kat and kropp . ]
#3288 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ but it will soon be all right again back here with kat and albert . ]
#3392 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the national feeling of the tommy resolves itself into this -- here he is . ]
#3431 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ after a while i find a shallow shell - hole and crawl into it . ]
#3437 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ in the trenches we were told there were black troops in front of us . ]
#3440 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ kat and albert had simply to aim at the glowing ends of the cigarettes . ]
#3468 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ suspicious sounds can be detected clearly despite the noise of the artillery - fire . ]
#3484 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ thus i advance a long way and then turn back in a wide curve . ]
#3562 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i dare not look again at the dark figure in the shell - hole . ]
#3603 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ then i unbutton his tunic in order to bandage him if it is possible . ]
#3614 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ these hours .... the gurgling starts again -- but how slowly a man dies ! ]
#3620 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ again and again i fetch water for the dying man and drink some myself . ]
#3625 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ it is hard to lie here and to have to see and hear him . ]
#3792 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the floor is first covered with mattresses which we haul in from the houses . ]
#3884 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ for ourselves we take some chocolate from the depot and eat it in slabs . ]
#3905 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ and behind it at the head is stowed a bag full of choicest edibles . ]
#3967 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ at the dressing station we arrange matters so that we lie side by side . ]
#3987 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the surgeon pokes around in the wound and a blackness comes before my eyes . ]
#4021 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ casually i let him see the packet and give him one cigar in advance . ]
#4035 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ the stretchers are sopping wet by the time the train arrives in the morning . ]
#4046 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ and my shirt has gone six weeks without being washed and is terribly muddy . ]
#4154 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we do not get examined to - day because there are too few surgeons . ]
#4173 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ in her black and white dress she looks like a beautiful tea - cosy . ]
#4188 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ if it doesn ' t stop before then i ' ll let something fly . ]
#4257 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i hold my thumb against the button of the bell till it becomes numb . ]
#4447 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ life holds no more joy for him if he has to forgo this affair . ]
#4481 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ after a few weeks i have to go each morning to the massage department . ]
#4490 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ in a few weeks he should go off to an institute for artificial limbs . ]
#4493 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ if he were not here with us he would have shot himself long ago . ]
#4499 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ then i am recalled to my regiment and return once more to the line . ]
#4573 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ anyone might have known that his flight was only homesickness and a momentary aberration . ]
#4687 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ for one german army loaf there are fifty tins of canned beef over there . ]
#4720 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we lie down in a small hole to wait till the shelling is over . ]
#50 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ then you ' ve got bread for one hundred and fifty men too , eh ? ]
#102 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the mail has come , and almost every man has a few letters and papers . ]
#140 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the three boxes stand in the midst of the glowing , red field - poppies . ]
#155 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ müller explains that he has a flesh wound in his thigh ; a good blighty . ]
#162 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ he was about the same size as corporal himmelstoss , the " terror of klosterberg . ]
#173 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but he did allow himself to be persuaded , otherwise he would have been ostracised . ]
#202 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ we were all at once terribly alone ; and alone we must see it through . ]
#442 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i stoop over bin and he whispers : " i don ' t think so . ]
#502 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ one of them comes up , casts a glance at kemmerich and goes away again . ]
#507 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ and the lane of poplars by the klosterbach , where we used to catch sticklebacks ! ]
#665 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ it shouldn ' t be put straight into the pan , that makes it tough . ]
#759 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ and it may be so ; still it oughtn ' t to become an abuse . ]
#843 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ müller is in a good mood for once ; he is wearing his new boots . ]
#990 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ it was only a nose - cap , it landed in the bushes over there . ]
#1101 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the breeze is fresh and cool , the pale hour makes our faces look grey . ]
#1175 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but we don ' t get as far as that ; a second bombardment begins . ]
#1176 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ it is no longer as though shells roared ; it is the earth itself raging . ]
#1200 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the shelling has ceased , i turn towards the crater and beckoning to the others . ]
#1247 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ a little group is gathering , from the shell - holes and trenches appear heads . ]
#1324 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ he shakes his freckled head : " you mean when the war ' s over ? ]
#1423 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ stand up there , bring your heels together when your superior officer speaks to you . ]
#1642 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i steal a glance to the side , he makes a snap at my throat . ]
#1672 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the glow of the fire lights up our faces , shadows dance on the wall . ]
#1734 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " that ' s a good preparation for the offensive , " says müller astonished . ]
#1926 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ after this affair the sticky , close atmosphere works more than ever on our nerves . ]
#2015 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ a third throws away his rifle , cowers down with his hands before his eyes . ]
#2042 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ it is a bit bloody at one corner , but that can be cut off . ]
#2074 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ they are quiet in this way , because quietness is so unattainable for us now . ]
#2088 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the tender , secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again . ]
#2100 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ my hands grow cold and my flesh creeps ; and yet the night is warm . ]
#2163 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " she ' s a nice bit , " he says with self - satisfaction . ]
#2367 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ after his fashion he enjoys himself over the picture , and tjaden supports him nobly . ]
#2472 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ in passing i see leer , he has made a great hit with the blonde . ]
#2476 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i feel giddy , there is nothing here that a man can hold on to . ]
#2544 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i know their every step and movement ; i would recognise them at any distance . ]
#2555 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ it is evening , and if the train did not rattle i should cry out . ]
#2794 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i find i do not belong here any more , it is a foreign world . ]
#2942 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " they ' ve done that a couple of times already , " grins mittelstaedt . ]
#2992 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " i will never tell her , she can make mincemeat out of me first . ]
#3155 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ in the darkness one sees their forms move like sick storks , like great birds . ]
#3232 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " doesn ' t the invalid ' s fund pay anything toward it , then ? ]
#3264 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ i search farther and wander about here and there ; it is a strange feeling . ]
#3380 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " i think it is more of a kind of fever , " says albert . ]
#3387 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ " anyway , it is better that the war is here instead of in germany . ]
#3599 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but there is water in the mud , down at the bottom of the crater . ]
#3616 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ if only i had not lost my revolver crawling about , i would shoot him . ]
#3635 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ they are brown , his hair is black and a bit curly at the sides . ]
#3786 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ after all , we cannot afford to be anything but matter - of - fact . ]
#3808 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ we seize hold of them -- no doubt about it , two real young pigs . ]
#3871 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ two , three men with their pants down are always sitting about outside and cursing . ]
#4005 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ he smells the cigars and says : " have you got any more of them ? ]
#4205 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ what can they do to us , anyway - - " who threw the bottle ? ]
#4285 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ josef hamacher knows all about it : " we shan ' t see him again . ]
#4389 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ day after day goes by with pain and fear , groans and death - gurgles . ]
#4480 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ we call her mother , she is pleased and shakes up our pillows for us . ]
#4548 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ we made fun of him , and asked whether he was going to a wedding . ]
#4550 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ during the night i heard him making a noise , he seemed to be packing . ]
#4640 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ all the same , they have nothing to do with mutiny or lead - swinging . ]
#282 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " do us the favour -- " " well , all right , " he says . ]
#551 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ thoughts of girls , of flowery meadows , of white clouds suddenly come into my head . ]
#552 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ my feet begin to move forward in my boots , i go quicker , i run . ]
#556 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ my limbs move supplely , i feel my joints strong , i breathe the air deeply . ]
#841 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we stand jammed in together , shoulder to shoulder , there is no room to sit . ]
#989 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ when he sees i am awake , he says : " that gave you a fright . ]
#1064 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we see a dark group , bearers with stretchers , and larger black clumps moving about . ]
#1402 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ the red moustache twitches : " you don ' t recognise me any more , what ? ]
#1422 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " what ' s that , you muck - rake , you dirty peat - stealer ? ]
#1439 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ kat is troubled : " if he reports you , it ' ll be pretty serious . ]
#1625 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ softly i steal across , lift the peg , pull it out and open the door . ]
#1627 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ two geese , that ' s bad : if i grab one the other will cackle . ]
#1628 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ well , both of them -- if i ' m quick , it can be done . ]
#1651 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ the slightest movement and then an awful growl ; i lie still , then try again . ]
#1738 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " the others jest too , unpleasant jests , but what else can a man do ? ]
#1852 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we must watch them , these things are catching , already some lips begin to quiver . ]
#2342 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ that is peace - time , that is as it should be ; we feel excited . ]
#2557 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ in the distance , the soft , blue silhouette of the mountain ranges begins to appear . ]
#2680 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ i click my heels and say : " i did not see you , herr major . ]
#3358 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " " true , but just you consider , almost all of us are simple folk . ]
#3377 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " " and generals too , " adds detering , " they become famous through war . ]
#3480 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ i am still afraid , but it is an intelligent fear , an extraordinarily heightened caution . ]
#3486 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ every yard nearer our trench fills me with confidence ; -- and with haste , too . ]
#3655 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ but now , for the first time , i see you are a man like me . ]
#3688 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ so i open the book and read slowly : -- gã © rard duval , compositor . ]
#3945 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " we make for the ditch beside the road , and stooping , run along it . ]
#3988 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " don ' t carry on so , " he says gruffly , and hacks away . ]
#3994 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " pardon me , herr doctor , i will keep still but do not chloroform me . ]
#4207 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ before i can think whether i should report myself , someone says : " i did . ]
#4367 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ " the other , a young fellow like ourselves , won ' t have it done . ]
#4686 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ for one hungry , wretched german soldier come five of the enemy , fresh and fit . ]
#34 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ finally katczinsky called to him : " say , heinrich , open up the soup - kitchen . ]
#757 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ " " they say , of course , there must be discipline , " ventures kropp meditatively . ]
#963 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ above us the air teems with invisible swift movement , with howls , pipings , and hisses . ]
#1560 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ we know how to do that : to play cards , to swear , and to fight . ]
#2267 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ the sun goes down , night comes , the shells whine , life is at an end . ]
#2775 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ " the details , yes , " says he , " but this relates to the whole . ]
#3822 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ kat takes charge of the sucking pigs , the carrots , the peas , and the cauliflower . ]
#4511 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ distinctions , breeding , education are changed , are almost blotted out and hardly recognisable any longer . ]
#3359 | T: 14 | I: 5 | [ and in france , too , the majority of men are labourers , workmen , or poor clerks . ]
#1929 | T: 14 | I: 7 | [ it rings metallically , the walls reel , rifles , helmets , earth , mud , and dust fly everywhere . ]
#19 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ fourteen days ago we had to go up and relieve the front line . ]
#24 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it was noon before the first of us crawled out of our quarters . ]
#32 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook - house . ]
#41 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " " they won ' t be fed by you to - day . ]
#42 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ they ' re either in the dressing - station or pushing up daisies . ]
#354 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of schopenhauer . ]
#370 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ each time he had some fault to find and pulled it to pieces . ]
#373 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ but the only result of this was to make himmelstoss hate us more . ]
#388 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in spite of ourselves we tripped and emptied the bucket over his legs . ]
#399 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss saw that we meant it and went off without saying a word . ]
#423 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the doctor passes by kemmerich ' s bed without once looking at him . ]
#512 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ what a fine mess i have made of it with my foolish talk ! ]
#517 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i would like to wipe them away but my handkerchief is too dirty . ]
#563 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy . ]
#601 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ there are such people everywhere but one does not appreciate it at first . ]
#617 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ half an hour later they are back again with arms full of straw . ]
#624 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ you won ' t find so much as a crust of bread here . ]
#667 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ with our knives we squat round in a circle and fill our bellies . ]
#722 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " and like lightning everyone scrambled under the bed to the opposite side . ]
#725 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ like a comet it bursts into a streamer of smoke and falls headlong . ]
#821 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in the end we had to drag him away to get our turn . ]
#835 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ and an old buffer was pleased to describe us as " young heroes . ]
#866 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the air becomes acrid with the smoke of the guns and the fog . ]
#872 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ men who have been up as often as we have become thick skinned . ]
#907 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ to no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier . ]
#929 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ mist and the smoke of guns lie breast - high over the fields . ]
#974 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ two men hold a roll and the others spool off the barbed wire . ]
#983 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ then wakening suddenly with a start i do not know where i am . ]
#1019 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the fire has lifted over us and is now dropping on the reserves . ]
#1032 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ cautiously he reaches his hand to his behind and looks at me dismally . ]
#1034 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ that wasn ' t the reason i had stuck his helmet over it . ]
#1181 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he tries to tear off his gas - mask with the other hand . ]
#1224 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i wet his temples with a moistened finger and give him a swig . ]
#1364 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " he pulls his shirt over his head and buttons up his tunic . ]
#1386 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he stretches his length on the grass and shuts his eyes in excitement . ]
#1410 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i don ' t remember that we ever slept in the gutter together ? ]
#1419 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i ' ve been wanting to tell you that for a long time . ]
#1436 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ haie and tjaden burst into a regular peat - digger ' s bellow . ]
#1463 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " what was the purpose of the poetic league of gã ¶ ttingen ? ]
#1483 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we ' ll have to go back and sit on the forms again . ]
#1579 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we ' ve been waiting here a long time for someone like you . ]
#1631 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ like a madman i bash their heads against the wall to stun them . ]
#1671 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " the sound of the gunfire from the front penetrates into our refuge . ]
#1752 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the shots are often so uncertain that they land within our own lines . ]
#1806 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it is usually the fashion now to charge with bombs and spades only . ]
#1884 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ tjaden regrets that we wasted the gnawed pieces of bread on the rats . ]
#1895 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it is a marvel that our post has had no casualties so far . ]
#1906 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ during the last few hours he has had merely the appearance of calm . ]
#1920 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ if we let him go he would run about everywhere regardless of cover . ]
#1927 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we sit as if in our graves waiting only to be closed in . ]
#1991 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ at last we reach a trench that is in a somewhat better condition . ]
#2002 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we arrive once again at our shattered trench and pass on beyond it . ]
#2023 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we bayonet the others before they have time to get out their bombs . ]
#2057 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ around the walls are the stone carvings of the stations of the cross . ]
#2063 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i lay hold of my rifle to see that it is in trim . ]
#2071 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it is strange that all the memories that come have these two qualities . ]
#2148 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in the evening it grows sultry and the heat rises from the earth . ]
#2180 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ they are in no man ' s land -- we know what for . ]
#2190 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ another has the lower part of his body and his legs torn off . ]
#2223 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ breathless we are all lying one beside the other waiting for the charge . ]
#2244 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " and the word of command does what all my banging could not . ]
#2268 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ still the little piece of convulsed earth in which we lie is held . ]
#2308 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly . ]
#2481 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ what have i known of it -- what do i know of it ? ]
#2493 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the moon floats in the heavens and in the waters of the canal . ]
#2511 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ there i see that i am not to return to the front immediately . ]
#2535 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ a man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread . ]
#2595 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " she gives me one from the cupboard and i dry my face . ]
#2750 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " he drags me along to a table with a lot of others . ]
#2755 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " i explain that no one would be sorry to be back home . ]
#2774 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he dismisses the idea loftily and informs me i know nothing about it . ]
#2777 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ you see only your little sector and so cannot have any general survey . ]
#2870 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ mittelstaedt has some news ready for me that electrifies me on the spot . ]
#2912 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ nothing could look more ludicrous than his forage - cap and his uniform . ]
#2925 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in the meantime kantorek is dashing up and down like a wild boar . ]
#2938 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " a few minutes later the two set off together pushing the barrow . ]
#2980 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " i tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously . ]
#3013 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ as i leave she kisses me and gives me a picture of him . ]
#3044 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ why do i not take you in my arms and die with you . ]
#3202 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ because i have already had a long leave i get none on sundays . ]
#3244 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in the evening i spread the jam on the cakes and eat some . ]
#3265 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ one night more and then another i camp out like a red indian . ]
#3301 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ at last it leaks out -- the kaiser is coming to review us . ]
#3410 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ if a mortar gets you it blows you clean out of your clothes . ]
#3416 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ otherwise it is naked and the clothes are hanging up in the tree . ]
#3421 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ underfoot the leaves are scratched up as though the man had been kicking . ]
#3555 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the next moment it is knocked out of my hand by a bullet . ]
#3714 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i will stay lying in front of the trench until they answer me . ]
#3756 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he heads the shooting list for to - day with three unquestionable hits . ]
#3784 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the war is too desperate to allow us to be sentimental for long . ]
#3785 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ that is only possible so long as things are not going too badly . ]
#3880 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ if we said anything it would only mean a good hiding for us . ]
#3888 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the village gradually vanishes under the shells and we lead a charmed life . ]
#3917 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ behind us shells are sending up fountains from the now utterly abandoned village . ]
#3999 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he has fished out a piece of shell and tosses it to me . ]
#4022 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ in exchange the sergeant - major covers us over with a waterproof sheet . ]
#4039 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i am lifted up and told to get into the bed above him . ]
#4230 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ if they open the door again to - morrow we will pitch another . ]
#4256 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the switch is by the door and none of us can stand up . ]
#4295 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " " they don ' t have so much work to do afterwards . ]
#4304 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " in the afternoon franz wachter ' s bed has a fresh occupant . ]
#4308 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ often relatives sit by the beds and weep or talk softly and awkwardly . ]
#4386 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he abuses us all night so that no one can go to sleep . ]
#4448 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ we console him and promise to get over the difficulty somehow or other . ]
#4469 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ they agree to stand guard for a quarter of an hour or thereabouts . ]
#4472 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i hold a club solo with four jacks which nearly goes the round . ]
#4492 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he often breaks off in his speech and stares in front of him . ]
#4501 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ but a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army . ]
#4595 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ berger goes off either to fetch the beast in or to shoot it . ]
#4600 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ and berger is six feet and the most powerful man in the company . ]
#4606 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ someone shot him point - blank in the stomach with a verey light . ]
#4653 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ the stink of petroleum or oil blows across with the fumes of powder . ]
#4685 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ for every one german plane there come at least five english and american . ]
#4703 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ kat cannot be left by himself while i try to find a stretcher . ]
#4779 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ " you see -- " the orderly whistles once more through his teeth . ]
#36 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " he shook his head sleepily : " you must all be there first . ]
#61 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " then ginger stirred himself and said : " that won ' t do . ]
#139 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the wind plays with our hair ; it plays with our words and thoughts . ]
#149 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ we are all sensible of it ; it needs no words to communicate it . ]
#160 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ müller throws his cigarette away and says : " i wish he was here . ]
#197 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ while they continued to write and talk , we saw the wounded and dying . ]
#280 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " if you don ' t think so , then why do you ask ? ]
#409 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ there were many other staff corporals , the majority of whom were more decent . ]
#478 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ his skin was very white ; he had something of the girl about him . ]
#547 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i say that it is probably in the orderly - room , and go . ]
#574 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " long time since you ' ve had anything decent to eat , eh ? ]
#600 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " we couldn ' t do without katczinsky ; he has a sixth sense . ]
#671 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ it is uncanny ; one would think he conjured it out of the air . ]
#797 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ returning to the barracks he had to go along a dark , uninhabited road . ]
#857 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " kat , i hear some aspirants for the frying - pan over there . ]
#875 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ you can tell by the report ; now you ' ll hear the burst . ]
#891 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the burst of flame shoots across the fog , the guns roar and boom . ]
#1028 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " you ' ll get used to it soon , " i tell him . ]
#1060 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " " they must look after the men first , " says kat quietly . ]
#1137 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ still that does not reassure me : wounds don ' t hurt till afterwards . ]
#1288 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he appeared yesterday ; we ' ve already heard the well - known voice . ]
#1337 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ then haie explains rather awkwardly : " if i were a non - com . ]
#1345 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " it can ' t be worse than digging trenches , " i venture . ]
#1497 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he puts the knife away and continues : " that ' s just it . ]
#1512 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " i don ' t want to do anything , " replies kropp wearily . ]
#1513 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " you ' ll be dead one day , so what does it matter ? ]
#1549 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ you won ' t say , that ' s the fact of the matter . ]
#1561 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ not much for twenty years ; -- and yet too much for twenty years . ]
#1584 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " next time i ' ll let fly , " i say to albert . ]
#1601 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " it can ' t be helped , " he says to him regretfully . ]
#1606 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ they used to tie us to a tree , but that is forbidden now . ]
#1666 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ there is a sort of hearth , an iron plate set on some bricks . ]
#1826 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ nothing happens till i am relieved ; -- only the everlasting rolling over there . ]
#1923 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ we do it quickly and mercilessly , and at last he sits down quietly . ]
#1934 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ one jumps up and rushes out , we have trouble with the other two . ]
#1992 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ it is manned and ready for the counter - attack , it receives us . ]
#2021 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ nevertheless , the couple of seconds has sufficed to give us five stomach wounds . ]
#2081 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ they are past , they belong to another world that is gone from us . ]
#2178 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ a year ago we watched them nesting ; the young ones grew up too . ]
#2181 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ they grow fat ; when we see one we have a crack at it . ]
#2287 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ and there is a long silence before the voice asks : " anyone else ? ]
#2334 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ she wears white stockings and white shoes , fine buckle shoes with high heels . ]
#2360 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ but when we have considered the picture once more , i declare myself willing . ]
#2422 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ as it turns dark we go to our billets , tjaden in the centre . ]
#2446 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ suddenly kropp hesitates : " what if there ' s a major with them ? ]
#2452 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ camerade -- bon ami -- " we say , and show our packages protestingly . ]
#2496 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i cannot trust myself to speak , i am not in the least happy . ]
#2515 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " if you ' re smart , you ' ll hang on to it . ]
#2712 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the suit is rather tight and short , i have grown in the army . ]
#2780 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " completely rolled up they must be , from the top to the bottom . ]
#2840 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ but i do not want to think of that , i sweep it away . ]
#2993 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i pity her , but she strikes me as rather stupid all the same . ]
#3082 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i hear my mother ' s breathing , and the ticking of the clock . ]
#3112 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ and here i have not much companionship , and do not even desire it . ]
#3225 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " if only i knew how much the operation costs , " says he . ]
#3327 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " " four and a half - wit make seven , " says kat . ]
#3353 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he means the people as a whole , the state -- " exclaims müller . ]
#3408 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " he ' s been blown out of his clothes , " mutters tjaden . ]
#3490 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ quiet , i squat in a shell - hole and try to locate myself . ]
#3492 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ after a little time i listen again , but still i am not sure . ]
#3640 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ she will read it , and in it he will be speaking to her . ]
#3684 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i look at the portraits once more ; they are clearly not rich people . ]
#3686 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ i seize upon that , it is at least something to hold on to . ]
#3932 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ we have to get over a hedge ; it is higher than we are . ]
#3995 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ " " well now , " he cackles and takes up his instrument again . ]
#4165 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ and so that you can get your share , they leave the door open . ]
#4339 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ my bones will not grow together , so the surgeon ' s secretary says . ]
#4353 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ you are here to be cured of your wound , not your flat feet . ]
#4446 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ but what is the use , there lewandowski lies in bed with his troubles . ]
#4491 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he continues not to talk much , and is much more solemn than formerly . ]
#4596 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ six months ago he would not have cared , he would have been reasonable . ]
#4619 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the factory owners in germany have grown wealthy ; -- dysentery dissolves our bowels . ]
#4695 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ our hands are earth , our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain . ]
#896 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ it is the front , the consciousness of the front , that makes this contact . ]
#1067 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ some gallop away in the distance , fall down , and then run on farther . ]
#1300 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " well , but if -- " persists müller , " what would you do ? ]
#1432 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " tjaden replies , without knowing it , in the well - known classical phrase . ]
#1454 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " albert , if you were really at home now , what would you do ? ]
#1969 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ i see one of them , his face upturned , fall into a wire cradle . ]
#2245 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ himmelstoss hears the order , looks round him as if awakened , and follows on . ]
#2283 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " he is silent , and then huskily he says : " is that all ? ]
#2614 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " yes , mother , i haven ' t had any for a long time . ]
#2820 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ i preferred the other books , the moderns , which were of course much dearer . ]
#3236 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " he shakes his head : " no , but i can do some overtime . ]
#3314 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ and everyone , bar nobody , has to stand up stiff in front of him ! ]
#3368 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " " well , i ' m not one of them , " grins tjaden . ]
#3401 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ " great guns , something ' s hit that , " i say to kat . ]
#3579 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ the man is not dead , he is dying , but he is not dead . ]
#3727 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ next time i see it again , yes , they are men from our trench . ]
#4298 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ and they can look after him better , too , if he is by himself . ]
#4689 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ behind us lay rainy weeks -- grey sky , grey fluid earth , grey dying . ]
#1697 | T: 13 | I: 4 | [ kat stands before me , his gigantic , stooping shadow falls upon me , like home . ]
#1849 | T: 13 | I: 4 | [ the reliefs go out , the observers stagger in , covered with dirt , and trembling . ]
#2587 | T: 13 | I: 4 | [ she pulls a door open and calls : " mother , mother , paul is here . ]
#4008 | T: 13 | I: 4 | [ " he understands , of course , smells them once again and says : " done . ]
#3920 | T: 13 | I: 5 | [ their figures are bent , their faces full of grief , despair , haste , and resignation . ]
#6 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we have not had such luck as this for a long time . ]
#43 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " the cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him . ]
#104 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ kropp has the round lid of a margarine tub under his arm . ]
#110 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ on the sides are hand grips enabling one to shift them about . ]
#133 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ often they rise in a sheaf as they follow after an airman . ]
#143 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ after every misã ¨ re ouverte we have a round of nap . ]
#164 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows . ]
#187 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ where would the world be if one brought every man to book ? ]
#228 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he it is still and yet it is not he any longer . ]
#321 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " all the older men are linked up with their previous life . ]
#393 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " " mind how you speak to a non - commissioned officer ! ]
#413 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but we would have felt ridiculous had we hauled down our colours . ]
#475 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ his hair flew in his face like silk when he did it . ]
#484 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ when bathing franz kemmerich looked as slight and frail as a child . ]
#509 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " i lean down over his face which lies in the shadow . ]
#522 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he does not speak of his mother or his brothers and sisters . ]
#548 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ behind me they are already hauling franz on to a waterproof sheet . ]
#609 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we are quartered in a small dark factory adapted to the purpose . ]
#619 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ now we might sleep if we weren ' t so terribly hungry . ]
#625 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " " aren ' t there any inhabitants here at all then ? ]
#646 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we are just dozing off when the door opens and kat appears . ]
#708 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ what would we not give to be able to return to it ! ]
#711 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " -- the midday hours of physical training -- " pianist forward ! ]
#740 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the mischief is merely that each one has much too much power . ]
#840 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ even the stingy tjaden gives me a cigarette and then a light . ]
#865 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ these branches might seem gay and cheerful were not cannon embowered there . ]
#876 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " but the muffled thud of the burst does not reach us . ]
#958 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they hover for the space of a minute before they burn out . ]
#966 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ it reminds me of flocks of wild geese when i hear them . ]
#1041 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " a couple of columns over there got it in the neck . ]
#1112 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ there ' s the cemetery with the mounds and the black crosses . ]
#1166 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i wipe the goggles of my mask clear of the moist breath . ]
#1172 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all hollows . ]
#1232 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he is the fair - headed boy of a little while ago . ]
#1240 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ in an hour he will become one screaming bundle of intolerable pain . ]
#1266 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ two men in the front of the lorry have long forked poles . ]
#1321 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " " how does the cow - shit come on the roof ? ]
#1338 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i ' d stay with the prussians and serve out my time . ]
#1368 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " see to it that himmelstoss didn ' t get past me . ]
#1371 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ then you could grind him till the water in his backside boils . ]
#1395 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he would like most to set us all on the run again . ]
#1459 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " do you think they would still let kantorek sit on them ? ]
#1471 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " what offices did lycurgus consider the most important for the state ? ]
#1539 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ at the head of the column trots the fat sergeant - major . ]
#1559 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards . ]
#1580 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ ' " he sits down again and himmelstoss disappears like a comet . ]
#1600 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ bertink gives kropp a wink and one day ' s open arrest . ]
#1621 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i rest my foot in his hands and climb over the wall . ]
#1623 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i wait a few moments to accustom my eyes to the darkness . ]
#1645 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ after an eternity he withdraws his head and sits down beside me . ]
#1652 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ when at last i have the revolver my hand starts to tremble . ]
#1690 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ in a half sleep i watch kat dip and raise the ladle . ]
#1710 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " we are brothers and press on one another the choicest pieces . ]
#1715 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we carve off a portion and wrap it up carefully in newspaper . ]
#1719 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ so we go off to the fowl - house to waken them . ]
#1781 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ each man takes out his spade and lies down prepared to strike . ]
#1798 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ during the day we loaf about and make war on the rats . ]
#1803 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ their mouths and noses were stuffed with sawdust so that they suffocated . ]
#1842 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ already by morning a few of the recruits are green and vomiting . ]
#1856 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ as far as one can see spout fountains of mud and iron . ]
#1868 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ our company commander scrambles in and reports that two dugouts are gone . ]
#1891 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this outburst . ]
#1899 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they say the bombardment extends undiminished as far as the artillery lines . ]
#1939 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we must try to - night to take him to the rear . ]
#1953 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the bombardment has stopped and a heavy barrage now falls behind us . ]
#1993 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ our guns open in full blast and cut off the enemy attack . ]
#2024 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ then thirstily we drink the water they have for cooling the gun . ]
#2104 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the blood beneath my skin brings fear and restlessness into my thoughts . ]
#2115 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but many have long to wait and we listen to them dying . ]
#2117 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he must be lying on his belly and unable to turn over . ]
#2124 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the voice is so strangely pitched that it seems to be everywhere . ]
#2139 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we hear it so distinctly because the wind blows toward our line . ]
#2152 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ why the driving - bands are so desirable no one knows exactly . ]
#2156 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he intends to give them to his girl to supplement her garters . ]
#2235 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i seize him by the arm and try to pull him up . ]
#2279 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ and we hear the number of our company called again and again . ]
#2304 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ that ' s not much when one comes to think of it . ]
#2416 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we drink punch and tell one another lying tales of our experiences . ]
#2432 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ as we must swim for it we can take no other clothes . ]
#2444 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we slip round the house and try to peer through the cracks . ]
#2454 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they recognise us and all three burst into laughter at our appearance . ]
#2521 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ already haie and kemmerich have gone -- who will the next be ? ]
#2529 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ at night we go again to the other side of the canal . ]
#2592 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " then i pull myself together and stagger on to the landing . ]
#2620 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we say very little and i am thankful that she asks nothing . ]
#2623 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i have come out of it safely and sit here beside her . ]
#2662 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ so i go for a while to my sister in the kitchen . ]
#2671 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i do not delay long for i have little inclination to talk . ]
#2793 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but now i see that i have been crushed without knowing it . ]
#2813 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ against the wall opposite stand the book - shelves with my books . ]
#2814 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i used to live in this room before i was a soldier . ]
#2815 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the books i bought gradually with the money i earned by coaching . ]
#2868 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ afterwards -- later on -- there is plenty of time for that . ]
#2889 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ ' it was easy to get put in charge of his company . ]
#2894 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ then i see kantorek and am scarcely able to stifle my laughter . ]
#2896 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ on the back and in the sleeves there are big dark patches . ]
#2934 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ that is exactly what kantorek used to do to him at school . ]
#2958 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ -- a pause that only makes everything after it so much worse . ]
#3019 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ who knows if i will ever lie in a feather bed again ? ]
#3051 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " perhaps you can get a job that is not so dangerous . ]
#3077 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ who else is there that has any claim on me but you . ]
#3094 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ there are only a few people that i have occasionally met before . ]
#3105 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ it is strangely inviting to dig one ' s hands into it . ]
#3106 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but most beautiful are the woods with their line of birch trees . ]
#3126 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ it is strange to see these enemies of ours so close up . ]
#3162 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either . ]
#3192 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i now know a few of those who speak a little german . ]
#3322 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " the main point is that you have to stand stiff yourself . ]
#3363 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they weren ' t asked about it any more than we were . ]
#3367 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " there must be some people to whom the war is useful . ]
#3384 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the fellows who write those lies ought to go and hang themselves . ]
#3446 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ it is not my first patrol and not a particularly risky one . ]
#3477 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ cautiously i glide out over the edge and snake my way forward . ]
#3526 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ if our fellows make a counter - raid i will be saved . ]
#3685 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i might send them money anonymously if i earn anything later on . ]
#3741 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but by next morning i can keep it to myself no longer . ]
#3794 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ only in the middle of the floor is there any clear space . ]
#3803 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ it comes from the house opposite where a shell has just landed . ]
#3814 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ in the dining - room there are already two heads of cauliflower . ]
#3817 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we want to make potato - cakes to go with the roast . ]
#3829 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ they sit in the living - room where there is a piano . ]
#3837 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ a couple of splinters whizz through the top of the kitchen window . ]
#3842 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ immediately afterwards i am up again and going on with the frying . ]
#3870 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ there is an everlasting coming and going in the dug - out . ]
#3890 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ tjaden has become so fastidious that he only half smokes his cigars . ]
#3913 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ between us stands a parrot cage that we found for the cat . ]
#3964 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i call out to a passing ambulance wagon which picks us up . ]
#3981 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ in the evening we are hauled on to the chopping - block . ]
#4100 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ as soon as she goes i must try to climb down again . ]
#4146 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ a match held cautiously near to it brings it up to 101 . ]
#4263 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " she wouldn ' t hear that any more than the bell . ]
#4282 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ and just to think of a garrison hospital gives one the creeps . ]
#4312 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the apples that she has brought with her she gives to us . ]
#4342 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ among our new arrivals there are two young soldiers with flat feet . ]
#4347 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ that is a special scientific stunt of the old boy ' s . ]
#4393 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ sister libertine with beaming looks pushes him over to his former bed . ]
#4530 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up . ]
#4543 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ his misfortune was that he saw a cherry tree in a garden . ]
#4554 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ " " surely i can pick cherry blossom if i want to ! ]
#4584 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we hear the explosions of the hand - grenades coming towards us . ]
#4585 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ our machine - gun sweeps over the semicircle in front of us . ]
#4627 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we have given up hope that some day an end may come . ]
#4670 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the summer of 1918 is the most bloody and the most terrible . ]
#4702 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ now you are saved -- " the wound begins to bleed fast . ]
#4731 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ when kat is taken away i will not have one friend left . ]
#4827 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping . ]
#33 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we were growing impatient , for the cook paid no attention to us . ]
#60 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ each man gets -- wait a bit -- yes , practically two issues . ]
#108 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ scattered about everywhere there are separate , individual boxes for the same purpose . ]
#117 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ here in the open air though , the business is entirely a pleasure . ]
#241 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i cannot bear to look at his hands , they are like wax . ]
#345 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we have lost all sense of other considerations , because they are artificial . ]
#400 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ but before he disappeared he growled : " you ' ll drink this ! ]
#499 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ and the fat , weeping woman at home to whom i must write . ]
#545 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i collect kemmerich ' s things , and untie his identification disc . ]
#555 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the night crackles electrically , the front thunders like a concert of drums . ]
#583 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " the youngster turns red : " you can ' t kid me . ]
#681 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ kropp stalks up , with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare . ]
#731 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " it ' s not only himmelstoss , there are lots of them . ]
#769 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ beaming with satisfaction he stammers out : " himmelstoss is on his way . ]
#772 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ tjaden wets his bed , he does it at night in his sleep . ]
#813 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss was thrown down , he rolled five yards and started to yell . ]
#1069 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ he becomes tangled in them and falls , then he stands up again . ]
#1092 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ only a long - drawn , dying sigh still hangs on the air . ]
#1148 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i open my eyes -- my fingers grasp a sleeve , an arm . ]
#1197 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i polish the windows , in my excitement they are immediately dimmed again . ]
#1198 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i peer through them , the man there no longer wears his mask . ]
#1258 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the bearers make a fuss about numbers and tickets , the wounded whimper . ]
#1264 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the rain rattles down , and flows off at the sides in streams . ]
#1335 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ at last müller pulls himself together and says : " and then what ? ]
#1434 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i ' ll have you court - martialled , " storms himmelstoss . ]
#1489 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ if you have no money , you have to work like the devil . ]
#1491 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ but it ' s rot all the same , everything they teach you . ]
#1508 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ let ' s get back first , then we ' ll find out . ]
#1536 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we believe in such things no longer , we believe in the war . ]
#1551 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " fatty looks round enquiringly ; but tjaden is not to be seen . ]
#1569 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " " that ' s none of your business , " retorts himmelstoss . ]
#1677 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ aeroplanes drone ; the tack - tack of machine - guns breaks out . ]
#1736 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " don ' t talk rot , " says kat to him angrily . ]
#1745 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the english artillery has been strengthened , that we can detect at once . ]
#1813 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ our artillery fires on it continually , but still it does not cease . ]
#1897 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ a corporal creeps in ; he has a loaf of bread with him . ]
#1924 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the others have turned pale ; let ' s hope it deters them . ]
#1970 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ his body collapses , his hands remain suspended as though he were praying . ]
#2110 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ it is cooked in fat and tastes good , i eat it slowly . ]
#2172 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ they are brimstone - butterflies , with red spots on their yellow wings . ]
#2194 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ so far there are three layers , one on top of the other . ]
#2205 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ they are helpless in this grim fighting area , they fall like flies . ]
#2220 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ their condition is hopeless , they choke to death with haemorrhages and suffocation . ]
#2381 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ there is one slim little brunette , her teeth gleam when she laughs . ]
#2494 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we do not run , we walk beside one another with long strides . ]
#2654 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ she says : " with the gas and all the rest of it . ]
#2762 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " unfortunately i have accepted the cigar , so i have to remain . ]
#2882 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ ' he was trying to remind me of those things , you know . ]
#2893 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the company has fallen in , mittelstaedt stands them at ease and inspects . ]
#3028 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i don ' t go straight back to the front , mother . ]
#3063 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " " you ought not to send your things to me , mother . ]
#3281 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the outer cakes are mouldy , still it is possible to eat them . ]
#3313 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ tjaden says with astonishment : " so that is the all - highest ! ]
#3349 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " growls kropp , " i don ' t mean that at all . ]
#3424 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " but don ' t get tender - hearted , " says tjaden . ]
#3641 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ my state is getting worse , i can no longer control my thoughts . ]
#3700 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " the sun strikes low , i am stupefied with exhaustion and hunger . ]
#3708 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ now suddenly i begin to tremble ; something might happen in the interval . ]
#3720 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ my excitement subsides , i wait cautiously until the first rocket goes up . ]
#3747 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i listen to them and feel comforted , reassured by their presence . ]
#3753 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ then we hear the cry : " that ' s found a billet ! ]
#3929 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i yell , for we are lying unsheltered in the open field . ]
#4027 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ it might have turned into a regular business , a real good living . ]
#4056 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " that doesn ' t matter , we will wash it again afterwards . ]
#4064 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " " because of the lice , " i bawl out at last . ]
#4168 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " i say , " just when a man dropped off to sleep . ]
#4199 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " heathen , " she chirps but shuts the door all the same . ]
#4303 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ " " anyone who has been here long enough knows , of course . ]
#4305 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ a couple of days later they take the new man away , too . ]
#4610 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ after me tjaden will get them , i have promised them to him . ]
#4744 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ how forlorn i am already , though he still sits here beside me . ]
#4752 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i have trouble in finding my water bottle , to take a pull . ]
#4778 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ as i draw them away from behind his head , they are bloody . ]
#308 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ yes , that ' s the way they think , these hundred thousand kantoreks ! ]
#381 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ alongside me ran the corporal , himmelstoss , and trod on my bare toes . ]
#526 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ i jump up , stumble outside and demand : " where is the doctor ? ]
#675 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ there is a smell of tar , of summer , and of sweaty feet . ]
#1075 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ but this appalling noise , these groans and screams penetrate , they penetrate everywhere . ]
#1243 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " yes , kat , we ought to put him out of his misery . ]
#1270 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ monotonously the lorries sway , monotonously come the calls , monotonously falls the rain . ]
#2211 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ their sharp , downy , dead faces have the awful expressionlessness of dead children . ]
#2358 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " we could go and get deloused , anyway , " kropp then suggests . ]
#2588 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " i can go no further -- mother , mother , paul is here . ]
#2591 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ my sister comes back and says : " why , what is the matter ? ]
#2904 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ inadequate , kantorek , quite inadequate -- " it makes me bubble with glee . ]
#3022 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ to talk , to stay awake with one another , it is too hard . ]
#3061 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " and you must get well again , mother , before i come back . ]
#3093 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ but now i know hardly anyone here ; as ever , all is altered . ]
#3285 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " good , " says he , " i can tell by the taste . ]
#3420 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ there , where the arm wounds are , the earth is black with blood . ]
#4131 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ " " albert , " i say " we stick together ; you see . ]
#4607 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ he lived for half an hour , quite conscious , and in terrible pain . ]
#3564 | T: 12 | I: 4 | [ the bullets hiss , they make a steel net , never ceasing , never ceasing . ]
#78 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ now bulcke of the first company is a much better fellow . ]
#95 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ anyone would think the quartermaster ' s store belonged to him ! ]
#111 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we move three together in a ring and sit down comfortably . ]
#112 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ and it will be two hours before we get up again . ]
#116 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in time things far worse than that came easy to us . ]
#138 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we take off our caps and lay them down beside us . ]
#201 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ and we saw that there was nothing of their world left . ]
#237 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but how can a man look after anyone in the field ! ]
#327 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ kantorek would say that we stood on the threshold of life . ]
#377 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " until i was one lump of mud and finally collapsed . ]
#406 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but before we had even begun to sweat he was hoarse . ]
#449 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ just eat decently and you ' ll soon be well again . ]
#451 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " he points to a dish that is still half full . ]
#465 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " i nod and wonder what to say to encourage him . ]
#501 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ hospital - orderlies go to and fro with bottles and pails . ]
#520 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ what if he were to open his mouth and cry out ! ]
#532 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i tremble with rage as i go along with the orderly . ]
#540 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the eyes are half open and yellow like old horn buttons . ]
#594 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i gave him three pieces of parachute - silk for it . ]
#618 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ kat has found a horse - box with straw in it . ]
#638 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but don ' t strain yourself in carrying what you find . ]
#674 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we have settled ourselves on the sunny side of the hut . ]
#682 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he lays out his washed socks to dry on the grass . ]
#789 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in the evening we prepared ourselves to square accounts with himmelstoss . ]
#792 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he revelled in the thought of how he would grind him . ]
#794 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in the meantime we decided to give him a good hiding . ]
#814 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but we were prepared for that and had brought a cushion . ]
#832 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he never discovered whom he had to thank for the business . ]
#882 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is the english batteries to the right of our section . ]
#884 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ according to us they start punctually at ten o ' clock . ]
#894 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we feel that in our blood a contact has shot home . ]
#928 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they are to collect us again in the morning before dawn . ]
#939 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ guns and munition wagons are moving along a cross - road . ]
#976 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i am not used to unrolling it and tear my hand . ]
#1000 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we crawl away as well as we can in our haste . ]
#1007 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ beside us lies a fair - headed recruit in utter terror . ]
#1150 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i yell to him -- no answer -- a dead man . ]
#1185 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ fortunately the man swoons and kropp is able to help us . ]
#1194 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i climb out over the edge of the shell - hole . ]
#1226 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we see now that the right arm is bleeding as well . ]
#1241 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ every day that he can live will be a howling torture . ]
#1255 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we trot off silently in single file one behind the other . ]
#1263 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we take out waterproof sheets and spread them over our heads . ]
#1292 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ tjaden has been meditating for hours what to say to him . ]
#1293 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ haie gazes thoughtfully at his great paws and winks at me . ]
#1358 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " and just you think how you ' d be treated . ]
#1381 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they ' ve already taken away two more of his horses . ]
#1411 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " he has no idea what to make of the situation . ]
#1435 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we watch him disappear in the direction of the orderly room . ]
#1514 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i don ' t think we ' ll ever go back . ]
#1519 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " all at once everything seems to me confused and hopeless . ]
#1529 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we don ' t want to take the world by storm . ]
#1553 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden will report at the orderly room in ten minutes . ]
#1597 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it isn ' t usual to make complaints in the army . ]
#1630 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i catch hold of one and the next instant the second . ]
#1633 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the beasts cackle and strike out with their feet and wings . ]
#1659 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ ten paces away stands kat with the goose under his arm . ]
#1729 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we go up to the front two days earlier than usual . ]
#1753 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ to - night two of our men were wounded by them . ]
#1769 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ detering says it is a sure sign of a coming bombardment . ]
#1783 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ after a few minutes we hear the first shuffling and tugging . ]
#1809 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ and what ' s more the blade often gets broken off . ]
#1814 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we have tired faces and avoid each other ' s eyes . ]
#1816 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " there we were shelled steadily for seven days and nights . ]
#1900 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is a mystery where the enemy gets all his shells . ]
#1912 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " he listens for a moment and his eyes become clear . ]
#1933 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the recruit starts to rave again and two others follow suit . ]
#1976 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the machine - guns are already firing from the next position . ]
#1999 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ beside me a lance - corporal has his head torn off . ]
#2034 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we lie for an hour panting and resting before anyone speaks . ]
#2037 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the corned beef over there is famous along the whole front . ]
#2049 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it looks as though the holes were full of ghostly secrets . ]
#2084 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but here in the trenches they are completely lost to us . ]
#2182 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ at night we hear again the rolling behind the enemy lines . ]
#2216 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ a surprise gas - attack carries off a lot of them . ]
#2221 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in one part of the trench i suddenly run into himmelstoss . ]
#2302 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the grub he gives us there is real officers ' fare . ]
#2307 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is all a matter of habit -- even the frontline . ]
#2329 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ some time ago there was an army theatre in these parts . ]
#2330 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ coloured posters of the performances are still sticking on a hoarding . ]
#2331 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ with wide eyes kropp and i stand in front of it . ]
#2370 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the houses in which we are billeted lie near the canal . ]
#2419 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " so we put some inside our caps to keep them . ]
#2460 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we unwrap our parcels and hand them over to the women . ]
#2508 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ seventeen days -- fourteen days leave and three days for travelling . ]
#2517 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ naturally i have to stand the others drinks at the canteen . ]
#2547 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ suddenly i become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone . ]
#2552 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i stand at the window and hold on to the frame . ]
#2589 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i lean against the wall and grip my helmet and rifle . ]
#2619 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ her hands are white and sickly and frail compared with mine . ]
#2624 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ and in the kitchen stands my sister preparing supper and singing . ]
#2627 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is not their way to protest what they already know . ]
#2642 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " i smile and point to the things i have brought . ]
#2677 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " don ' t you know how to speak properly ? ]
#2733 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there is nothing he likes more than just hearing about it . ]
#2737 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ so i confine myself to telling him a few amusing things . ]
#2758 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but first you have to give the froggies a good hiding . ]
#2787 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i hope we will soon hear something worth while from you . ]
#2790 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is i of course that have changed in the interval . ]
#2791 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there lies a gulf between that time and to - day . ]
#2808 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ in my room behind the table stands a brown leather sofa . ]
#2871 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he tells me kantorek has been called up as a territorial . ]
#2929 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ mittelstaedt encourages kantorek the territorial with quotations from kantorek the schoolmaster . ]
#2951 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " he ' ll mess up the examination for you . ]
#2954 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " couldn ' t you polish him up a bit ? ]
#2995 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich will stay dead whether she knows about it or not . ]
#3039 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ why have i always to be strong and self - controlled ? ]
#3083 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ outside the window the wind blows and the chestnut trees rustle . ]
#3086 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i grasp the iron rods of my bed with my fists . ]
#3118 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they slink about our camp and pick over the garbage tins . ]
#3129 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they look just as kindly as our own peasants in friesland . ]
#3132 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ ourselves we have not had sufficient to eat for long enough . ]
#3139 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they come over to the camp in the evenings and trade . ]
#3161 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned . ]
#3195 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the others sit down and lean their backs against the fence . ]
#3197 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he plays mostly folk songs and the others hum with him . ]
#3220 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " so she is lying there with all those people . ]
#3261 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they tell me of heavy losses that we have been having . ]
#3305 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ such things exasperate a soldier more than the front - line . ]
#3372 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " it isn ' t any use to the kaiser either . ]
#3417 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ both arms are missing as though they had been pulled out . ]
#3418 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i discover one of them twenty yards off in a shrub . ]
#3443 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ at the same moment a senseless fear takes hold of me . ]
#3461 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i raise myself up a little to take a look round . ]
#3507 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ now there is nothing for it but to stay lying low . ]
#3569 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ our fellows have probably given me up for lost long ago . ]
#3590 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i am powerless to move so long as they are there . ]
#3607 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ so there is nothing for it but to cut it open . ]
#3618 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ by noon i am groping on the outer limits of reason . ]
#3643 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ like the little brunette on the other side of the canal ? ]
#3723 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ before me lies the oncoming night and the pale gleaming field . ]
#3738 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the night attack is the only unusual feature of the business . ]
#3754 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " did you see how he leapt in the air ? ]
#3796 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there is plenty of everything to be had in the village . ]
#3806 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we rub our eyes and look once again to make certain . ]
#3843 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the saxon stops singing -- a fragment has smashed the piano . ]
#3908 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ kropp and i have rescued two big red armchairs as well . ]
#3918 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ a few days later we are sent to evacuate a village . ]
#3937 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ whenever a shell whistles we duck our heads under the water . ]
#3983 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ under the great business that is much simpler than complicated patching . ]
#4009 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " we cannot get a minute ' s sleep all night . ]
#4161 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the doors stand open and 1 hear voices from the corridor . ]
#4198 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the little one who came first is the last to go . ]
#4202 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he threatens us with clink and all the rest of it . ]
#4224 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ whoever has a shooting licence can do just whatever he pleases . ]
#4232 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ with josef hamacher in our midst we can now risk anything . ]
#4269 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " he has been bleeding badly and she binds him up . ]
#4284 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ one day he is taken away and does not come back . ]
#4290 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " " a little room at the corner of the building . ]
#4291 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ whoever is about to kick the bucket is put in there . ]
#4301 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " usually he doesn ' t take much notice any more . ]
#4391 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they go even faster than the sisters can cope with them . ]
#4434 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ she is already on the way and may arrive any day . ]
#4451 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it terrifies her that there are six of us men present . ]
#4453 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " she goes round and proffers each of us her hand . ]
#4540 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i see how it is already gradually breaking down around me . ]
#4577 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it will be enough to tell how berger met his end . ]
#4613 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there are too many fresh english and american regiments over there . ]
#4614 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there ' s too much corned beef and white wheaten bread . ]
#4701 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " who knows how long this mess will go on yet ! ]
#4785 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ " would you like to take his paybook and his things ? ]
#4800 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i am the last of the seven fellows from our class . ]
#4813 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we will not be able to find our way any more . ]
#51 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " the sergeant - cook nodded absent - minded , and bewildered . ]
#66 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " " we ' ll soon show you , " growled müller . ]
#90 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ then passing on he said : " bring me a plate full . ]
#129 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " there it can only be hygienic ; here it is beautiful . ]
#180 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ strange to say , behm was one of the first to fall . ]
#238 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " now you will soon be going home , " says kropp . ]
#503 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ you can see he is waiting , apparently he wants the bed . ]
#558 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i feel a hunger , greater than comes from the belly alone . ]
#874 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ kat explains to them : " that was a twelve - inch . ]
#887 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " " there ' ll be a bombardment , i tell you . ]
#975 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ it is that awful stuff with close - set , long spikes . ]
#996 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ a couple of minutes later another comes over , nearer this time . ]
#1068 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the belly of one is ripped open , the guts trail out . ]
#1111 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the little wood reappears ; we know every foot of ground here . ]
#1140 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ now a crack on the skull , i begin to lose consciousness . ]
#1141 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ like lightning the thought comes to me : don ' t faint ! ]
#1202 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ we lift up the wounded man , one taking his splinted arm . ]
#1219 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ there ' s no vomiting , that ' s a good sign . ]
#1472 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " asks müller , pretending to take off his pince - nez . ]
#1501 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ how will we ever get used to one after this , here ? ]
#1526 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ albert expresses it : " the war has ruined us for everything . ]
#1566 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " then you ' d better find him , " he persists . ]
#1662 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the goose is dead , kat saw to that in a moment . ]
#1698 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ he speaks gently , he smiles and goes back to the fire . ]
#1784 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ it grows , now it is the sound of many little feet . ]
#1815 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " it will be like the somme , " says kat gloomily . ]
#1880 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ still the food does not last out ; we are damnably hungry . ]
#2020 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ a machine - gun barks , but is silenced with a bomb . ]
#2128 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ we scrutinised the field all day with glasses , but discover nothing . ]
#2184 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ there is always plenty of amusement , the airmen see to that . ]
#2227 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ he is in a panic ; he is new to it too . ]
#2289 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " a line , a short line trudges off into the morning . ]
#2312 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ if we did that , we should have been destroyed long ago . ]
#2346 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " about twenty - two at the most , " i hazard . ]
#2382 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ she has quick movements , her dress swings loosely about her legs . ]
#2455 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ they rock and sway in the doorway , they laugh so much . ]
#2495 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " that was worth a ration - loaf , " says leer . ]
#2522 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ as we drink , i look at each of them in turn . ]
#2695 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ well , we don ' t stand for that sort of thing . ]
#2739 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i say " no , " and get up and go out . ]
#2749 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the best for our soldiers every time , that goes without saying . ]
#2773 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ besides , the war may be rather different from what people think . ]
#2797 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i prefer to be alone , so that no one troubles me . ]
#2843 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i know them all still , i remember arranging them in order . ]
#2883 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ then i got mad , and i reminded him of something instead . ]
#2952 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " " i don ' t care , " says mittelstaedt calmly . ]
#3004 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " good god , what is there that is sacred to me ? ]
#3021 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ she thinks i am asleep , and i pretend to be so . ]
#3142 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the leather of their knee boots is wonderfully soft , like suede . ]
#3167 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ most of them are silent ; occasionally one begs a cigarette butt . ]
#3168 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i see their dark forms , their beards move in the wind . ]
#3231 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " the dressings afterwards are so expensive , " says my father . ]
#3356 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ state and home - country , there ' s a big difference . ]
#3398 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ instead of going to russia , we go up the line again . ]
#3453 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i look at the time ; only a few minutes have passed . ]
#3458 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i make a vain attempt ; -- they refuse to come away . ]
#3463 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ a star - shell goes up ; -- i duck down again . ]
#3517 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ it clatters over me and away , the first wave has passed . ]
#3733 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " " no , no -- " we drop into the trench . ]
#3830 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ one of them plays , the other sings " an der weser . ]
#3886 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ almost a fortnight passes thus in eating , drinking and roaming about . ]
#3938 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ after we have done this a dozen times , i am exhausted . ]
#4171 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i get furious and call out : " be quiet out there ! ]
#4330 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ his black curly head sways , his eyes are full of tears . ]
#4336 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ at last josef says : " many a man has said that . ]
#4340 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ another fellow ' s have grown crooked ; his are broken again . ]
#4343 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ the chief surgeon discovers them on his rounds , and is overjoyed . ]
#4370 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ -- they are mere privates , and he is a big bug . ]
#4438 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ lewandowski develops a fever , and has to go back to bed . ]
#4444 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ and what ' s more , nobody finds anything objectionable in it . ]
#4456 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ this dispels her first embarrassment , and the two begin to talk . ]
#4486 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ are no longer made of cloth , but of white crepe paper . ]
#4514 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ to rediscover the old distinctions , the metal itself must be tested . ]
#4545 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ it had no leaves , but was one white mass of blossom . ]
#4639 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ there are many such stories , they are mostly far more bitter . ]
#4667 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ like an emptying tube , after a couple of minutes he collapses . ]
#4699 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i bind up his wound ; his shin seems to be smashed . ]
#4741 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " in any case give me your address at home , kat . ]
#4742 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ and here is mine , i will write it down for you . ]
#4756 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " you might have spared yourself that , " says an orderly . ]
#4761 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ " he has been hit in the shin , " i say . ]
#119 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ they are , in fact , just as natural as eating and drinking . ]
#232 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ his mother , a good plump matron , brought him to the station . ]
#331 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ for the others , the older men , it is but an interruption . ]
#467 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ the flesh melts , the forehead bulges more prominently , the cheekbones protrude . ]
#1327 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " well , there ' d be women of course , eh ? ]
#1339 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " haie , you ' ve got a screw loose , surely ! ]
#1348 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " but , man , surely it ' s better at home . ]
#1401 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " a bit longer than you , i fancy , " he retorts . ]
#1405 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " himmelstoss turns to him : ' tjaden , isn ' t it ? ]
#1887 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ towards morning , while it is still dark , there is some excitement . ]
#1966 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ we recognise the smooth distorted faces , the helmets : they are french . ]
#2293 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ in the meantime , when we are off duty , we loaf around . ]
#2985 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " no , " i say , " i was beside him . ]
#3124 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ this thin , miserable , dirty garbage is the objective of the prisoners . ]
#3128 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ they ought to be put to threshing , reaping , and apple picking . ]
#3276 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ then i jump up , push in amongst them , my eyes searching . ]
#3347 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ or a river , or a wood , or a field of wheat . ]
#3795 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ then we furnish ourselves with blankets , and eiderdowns , luxurious soft affairs . ]
#3804 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " the swine , " grimaces kat , and we continue our search . ]
#4057 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " no , no , not that -- " i say excitedly . ]
#4066 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " well , they must have a good day for once , too . ]
#4136 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " " yes , " i groan , " all of a sudden . ]
#4289 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ " well , dying room -- " " what is that , then ? ]
#4467 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ he wants to have her , and he should have her , good . ]
#4589 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ then , at closest range , a second machine - gun bursts out . ]
#4648 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ trenches , hospitals , the common grave -- there are no other possibilities . ]
#1113 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ that moment it breaks out behind us , swells , roars , and thunders . ]
#1428 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ " tjaden , i command you , as your superior officer : stand up ! ]
#4076 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ i cannot realise it all yet ; a bed , a train , home . ]
#2243 | T: 11 | I: 5 | [ he sees us and yells : " forward , forward , join in , follow . ]
#4646 | T: 11 | I: 5 | [ shells , gas clouds , and flotillas of tanks -- shattering , corroding , death . ]
#1 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ one we are at rest five miles behind the front . ]
#16 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it is true we have no right to this windfall . ]
#89 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he lifted the lid from the dixie again and sniffed . ]
#145 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the notes of an accordion float across from the billets . ]
#146 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ often we lay aside the cards and look about us . ]
#148 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there is in each of us a feeling of constraint . ]
#189 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and that is why they let us down so badly . ]
#252 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ müller reappears with a pair of airman ' s boots . ]
#262 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " out here one can make some use of them . ]
#265 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we talk a little more and then take our leave . ]
#267 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " i promise him to come back in the morning . ]
#281 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " i press a few more cigarettes into his hand . ]
#284 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he doesn ' t trust him and wants to see . ]
#289 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ do you think he will last till tomorrow after drill ? ]
#311 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we are none of us more than twenty years old . ]
#369 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i have remade his bed fourteen times in one morning . ]
#401 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " -- but that was the end of his authority . ]
#404 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but we did it so slowly that himmelstoss became desperate . ]
#448 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " that ' s the result of the operation . ]
#559 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ müller stands in front of the hut waiting for me . ]
#586 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he takes us to a tub beside his straw sack . ]
#587 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ sure enough it is half full of beef and beans . ]
#628 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but they hang round the cook - house and beg . ]
#631 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " but i see kat has put on his cap . ]
#673 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ admittedly we would rather have had a good beef steak . ]
#679 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ kat can ' t get it out of his head . ]
#704 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the rooms are cool and one looks toward them longingly . ]
#713 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ report to the cook - house for potato - peeling . ]
#782 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ anyone who looked at their sallow skin could see that . ]
#796 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we knew which pub he used to visit every evening . ]
#798 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there we waited for him behind a pile of stones . ]
#805 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " i slipped round the pile of stones with tjaden . ]
#827 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ his striped postman ' s backside gleamed in the moonlight . ]
#836 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " four we have to go up on wiring fatigue . ]
#849 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ beside us stream the munition - columns in long files . ]
#859 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " it will be attended to when we come back . ]
#948 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there are some shell - smashed lorries in the road . ]
#978 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but there is still some time before the lorries come . ]
#1024 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i sit up and shake the recruit by the shoulder . ]
#1036 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ go behind that bush there and throw your underpants away . ]
#1052 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " he is a farmer and very fond of horses . ]
#1061 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we stand up and try to see where it is . ]
#1073 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " detering trembles and throws his rifle on the ground . ]
#1246 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we look round -- but we are no longer alone . ]
#1260 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ an hour later we reach our lorries and climb in . ]
#1294 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the thrashing was the high water mark of his life . ]
#1347 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and there ' s no getting out of it either . ]
#1374 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he ' s a born schoolmaster with all his questions . ]
#1391 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he continues to stand in front of us and wait . ]
#1392 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ as no one says anything he launches a " well ! ]
#1394 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ apparently himmelstoss doesn ' t quite know what to do . ]
#1446 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " and if they send you to the fortress ? ]
#1488 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a student ' s life isn ' t any better . ]
#1504 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " but what will really happen when we go back ? ]
#1522 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but nobody at home seems to worry much about it . ]
#1554 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " then he steams off with himmelstoss in his wake . ]
#1567 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " haven ' t you been to look for him ? ]
#1572 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " see up there where those little white clouds are . ]
#1589 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the story of the bed - wetting makes an impression . ]
#1618 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i agree to get the goose and receive my instructions . ]
#1643 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i lie still and tuck my chin into my collar . ]
#1673 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ sometimes a heavy crash and the lean - to shivers . ]
#1678 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but no light that could be observed shows from us . ]
#1683 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ what does he know of me or i of him ? ]
#1687 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ one bastes it while the other lies down and sleeps . ]
#1702 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ in the middle of the room shines the brown goose . ]
#1716 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the rest we thought of taking over to the hut . ]
#1730 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ on the way we pass a shelled school - house . ]
#1766 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but every soldier believes in chance and trusts his luck . ]
#1827 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ gradually we grow calmer and play skat and poker continually . ]
#1848 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the whole region where they go up becomes one grave . ]
#1896 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it is one of the less deep dug - outs . ]
#1938 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he butts his head against the wall like a goat . ]
#1998 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the fire lifts a hundred yards and we break forward . ]
#2012 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ -- a blow from a spade cleaves through his face . ]
#2045 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ tjaden has captured two water - bottles full of cognac . ]
#2080 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ once we had such desires -- but they return not . ]
#2091 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we could never regain the old intimacy with those scenes . ]
#2108 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ painfully i force myself to wait until i am relieved . ]
#2116 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ for one of them we search two days in vain . ]
#2171 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ one morning two butterflies play in front of our trench . ]
#2174 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there is not a plant nor a flower for miles . ]
#2177 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ every morning larks ascend from no man ' s land . ]
#2179 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we have a spell from the rats in the trench . ]
#2185 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there are countless fights for us to watch every day . ]
#2193 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we put the dead in a large shell - hole . ]
#2207 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the young recruits of course know none of these things . ]
#2215 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ between five and ten recruits fall to every old hand . ]
#2294 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ after a couple of days himmelstoss comes up to us . ]
#2305 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a few years ago we would have despised ourselves terribly . ]
#2337 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ at most perhaps a bit of sand from the beach . ]
#2339 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the girl on the poster is a wonder to us . ]
#2423 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we are glowing and full of a lust for adventure . ]
#2490 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we pull on our boots and take our leave warmly . ]
#2507 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i look to see how much leave i have got . ]
#2534 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ may she go to the devil with her chattering talk . ]
#2569 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a red - cross sister offers me something to drink . ]
#2668 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " i go to the district commandant to report myself . ]
#2714 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ in the end my sister ties the bow for me . ]
#2730 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ my mother is the only one who asks no questions . ]
#2811 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ in between are drawings and postcards that have pleased me . ]
#2847 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a terrible feeling of foreignness suddenly rises up in me . ]
#2852 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ wearily i stand up and look out of the window . ]
#2875 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ stand to attention when you speak to a superior officer . ]
#2922 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ that is one of himmelstoss ' well - worn recipes . ]
#2940 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but the porter is delighted to have scored light duty . ]
#2968 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ after waiting by turns for three hours the queue disperses . ]
#2970 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it is a good thing that i get my rations . ]
#3020 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ late in the night my mother comes into my room . ]
#3029 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i have to do four weeks at the training camp . ]
#3057 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i get up and wrap my cover round her shoulders . ]
#3070 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ you must not forget to put them in your pack . ]
#3076 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ how can it be that i must part from you ? ]
#3098 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the camp is surrounded with high barbed - wire fences . ]
#3206 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we don ' t want to stay in the camp . ]
#3207 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ about midday we go for a stroll on the moors . ]
#3216 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we must wait till we know what the operation costs . ]
#3230 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and the doctor does not take it amiss from them . ]
#3243 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then they go off and i return to the camp . ]
#3246 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ so i go out to give them to the russians . ]
#3274 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the second half is always rather messed up by that . ]
#3292 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it ' s not much of a war over there . ]
#3295 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there ' s a great deal of polishing being done . ]
#3335 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and the french are over there to protect their fatherland . ]
#3346 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a mountain in germany cannot offend a mountain in france . ]
#3472 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ to judge by the tone that might be kat talking . ]
#3479 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then i try to get in touch with the others . ]
#3495 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ so i crawl round once again in a wide curve . ]
#3520 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ if anyone jumps in here i will go for him . ]
#3541 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the rattle of machine - guns becomes an unbroken chain . ]
#3565 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then i notice my bloody hand and suddenly feel nauseated . ]
#3587 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ my legs give way and i drop on my elbows . ]
#3594 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i open his collar and place his head more comfortably . ]
#3624 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i would give much if he would but stay alive . ]
#3734 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i ask for something to eat and wolf it down . ]
#3755 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " sergeant oellrich turns round proudly and scores his point . ]
#3771 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " oellrich ' s rifle cracks out sharply and dry . ]
#3775 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we are supposed to provision ourselves from the same store . ]
#3793 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ even a soldier ' s behind likes to sit soft . ]
#3799 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ kat and i do a little patrolling through the houses . ]
#3833 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then we begin to realise we are in for trouble . ]
#3864 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we entice it in and give it something to eat . ]
#3877 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ on one side the supply dump has been ripped open . ]
#3900 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ after eight more days we receive orders to go back . ]
#3949 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ so we change our plan and run diagonally across country . ]
#3955 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " at last we reach a small dug - out . ]
#3979 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i won ' t go through life as a cripple . ]
#3980 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " so we lie there with our thoughts and wait . ]
#3989 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the instruments gleam in the bright light like marvellous animals . ]
#4012 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ another has crept out of his bed to the window . ]
#4019 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant - major looks after us like a mother . ]
#4053 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ -- " it will get - - " i hesitate . ]
#4081 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " i ' m going to have a look . ]
#4089 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the sister comes with a light and looks at me . ]
#4151 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we are in the same room in a catholic hospital . ]
#4194 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ a swarm of sisters appear and reproach us in concert . ]
#4226 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ ever since then i ' ve had a grand time . ]
#4229 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " i reported myself because the shot amused me . ]
#4320 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ peter understands immediately and tries to roll off the trolley . ]
#4324 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " but we are going to the bandaging ward . ]
#4325 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " " then what do you want my tunic for ? ]
#4338 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ " i am operated on and vomit for two days . ]
#4354 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ did you have any trouble with them in the field ? ]
#4374 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the whole leg has been taken off from the thigh . ]
#4381 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but in spite of this caution there is an incident . ]
#4398 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ gradually a few of us are allowed to get up . ]
#4401 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ his eyes always follow me with such a strange look . ]
#4412 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i see intestine wounds that are constantly full of excreta . ]
#4432 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ for some days past he has been in great excitement . ]
#4450 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ she murmurs something softly and stands shyly in the doorway . ]
#4482 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there my leg is harnessed up and made to move . ]
#4496 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ my mother does not want to let me go away . ]
#4498 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it is all much worse than it was last time . ]
#4525 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ all else is banished because it would consume energies unnecessarily . ]
#4542 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he was one of those who kept himself to himself . ]
#4643 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ from a mockery the tanks have become a terrible weapon . ]
#4657 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but they work nearer and things begin to look bad . ]
#4672 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ every man here knows that we are losing the war . ]
#4683 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and why do these rumours of an end fly about ? ]
#4808 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ here my thoughts stop and will not go any farther . ]
#10 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ in tjaden this is voracity , in müller it is foresight . ]
#63 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " why won ' t that do , you old carrot ? ]
#458 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " so you may still , " i assure him . ]
#553 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ soldiers pass by me , i hear their voices without understanding . ]
#584 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " katczinsky merely says : " fetch your mess - tin . ]
#652 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ he has the bread , the rest doesn ' t matter . ]
#654 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " cut some wood , " he says curtly to haie . ]
#733 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " that ' s the uniform , " i suggest . ]
#755 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it goes to the heads of them all , you see . ]
#1043 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it is not men , they could not cry so terribly . ]
#1108 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " we ' ll soon be out of it , kat . ]
#1209 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we stop ; kropp goes on alone with the wounded man . ]
#1318 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " haie , what would you do if it was peacetime ? ]
#1322 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " retorts müller laconically , and turns to haie westhus again . ]
#1425 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " you take a run and jump at yourself , himmelstoss . ]
#1478 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ which he caps with : " what is meant by cohesion ? ]
#1480 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ anyway , it has never been the slightest use to us . ]
#1594 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " why didn ' t someone report the matter , then ? ]
#1718 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " i agree , we will have to take it all . ]
#1797 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we drink it of course ; but are not greatly comforted . ]
#1838 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ the dug - out heaves , the night roars and flashes . ]
#1876 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ a second party goes out , and it also turns back . ]
#1877 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ finally kat tries , and even he reappears without accomplishing anything . ]
#1883 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we cannot sleep , but stare ahead of us and doze . ]
#1909 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ i intercept him and say : " where are you going ? ]
#2098 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we might exist there ; but should we really live there ? ]
#2105 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ they become feeble and tremble , they want warmth and life . ]
#2133 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it is to no purpose , they come back without him . ]
#2258 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ but if it comes this way , then run for it . ]
#2315 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we can do nothing else , it is a sheer necessity . ]
#2348 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ she is not more then seventeen , let me tell you ! ]
#2424 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ the little brunette is mine , we have settled all that . ]
#2461 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ their eyes shine , it is obvious that they are hungry . ]
#2563 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ i stand by the window , i cannot drag myself away . ]
#2582 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ upstairs a door rattles , someone is looking over the railing . ]
#2681 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " then keep your eyes open , " he snorts . ]
#2701 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ so i double back , and then march up to him . ]
#2761 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ waiter , bring a beer as well for our young warrior . ]
#3026 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " i can sleep enough later , " she says . ]
#3032 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ then she asks gently : " are you very much afraid ? ]
#3047 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " i will pray for you every day , paul . ]
#3058 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ she supports herself on my arm , she is in pain . ]
#3097 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ two girls are in attendance , one of them is young . ]
#3177 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ i am frightened : i dare think this way no more . ]
#3283 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ kat chews and says : " these are from your mother ? ]
#3300 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ still , what do we need new things for in russia ? ]
#3310 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ he distributes iron crosses , speaks to this man and that . ]
#3321 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " what rot you do hatch out , " says kat . ]
#3337 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " perhaps both , " say i without believing it . ]
#3378 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " even more famous than emperors , " adds kat . ]
#3498 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ but there is nothing for it , i must get out . ]
#3543 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ when i recover myself , my hand is sticky and wet . ]
#3563 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ with an effort i look past it and wait , wait . ]
#3576 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ the other hand lies on his chest , it is bloody . ]
#3595 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ his mouth stands half open , it tries to form words . ]
#3605 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ he tries to resist , but his hand is too feeble . ]
#3706 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ if it were summer , it would be three hours more . ]
#3737 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ there is nothing new about it ; it happens quite often . ]
#3790 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it cannot be otherwise , that is how we hearten ourselves . ]
#3831 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " he sings feelingly , but with a rather saxon accent . ]
#3973 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we drink and drink , one glass of water after another . ]
#4080 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " " the door is on the right , i think . ]
#4233 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ then come the soundless , flat trollies to take us away . ]
#4277 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ a few of them have real spirit , they are superb . ]
#4337 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ once a man is in there , he never comes through . ]
#4507 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ the deaths are merely more frequent , more varied and terrible . ]
#4549 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ he made no answer , but lay down on his bed . ]
#4564 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ that was suspicious , for he is usually tight - fisted . ]
#4626 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " germany ought to be empty soon , " says kat . ]
#4739 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ " perhaps we could do something together later on , kat . ]
#4804 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ if there is not peace , then there will be revolution . ]
#4806 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ the armistice is coming soon , i believe it now too . ]
#430 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ i resume : " it might have been both legs , franz . ]
#591 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " great guts , kat , how did you come by that ? ]
#1534 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ the first bomb , the first explosion , burst in our hearts . ]
#1535 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ we are cut off from activity , from striving , from progress . ]
#1732 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ they still smell of resin , and pine , and the forest . ]
#1782 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ detering , kropp , and kat hold their pocket - torches ready . ]
#1886 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ we are short of water , too , but not seriously yet . ]
#2231 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ he does not stir , his lips quiver , his moustache twitches . ]
#2282 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " and then more softly : " nobody else , second company ? ]
#2350 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " that would be good , albert , what do you think ? ]
#2856 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ i look , turn over the pages , take up fresh books . ]
#2981 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ she looks at me , she doubts me : " you lie . ]
#3025 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " go and sleep , mother , you will catch cold here . ]
#3422 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " that ' s no joke , kat , " say i . ]
#4725 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ " do you remember , kat , how we commandeered the goose ? ]
#1129 | T: 10 | I: 4 | [ the wood vanishes , it is pounded , crushed , torn to pieces . ]
#3483 | T: 10 | I: 4 | [ often i pause , stock still , motionless , and always for nothing . ]
#18 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we have only a miscalculation to thank for it . ]
#38 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " the sergeant - cook still took no notice . ]
#46 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " then for once we ' ll have enough . ]
#62 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " we got excited and began to crowd around . ]
#70 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ you haven ' t drawn food for eighty men . ]
#71 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ you ' ve drawn it for the second company . ]
#93 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " ginger looked sheepish as tjaden danced round him . ]
#103 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we stroll over to the meadow behind the billets . ]
#156 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we decide to go and see him this afternoon . ]
#170 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but we didn ' t think of that then . ]
#175 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the wisest were just the poor and simple people . ]
#177 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky said that was a result of their upbringing . ]
#186 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ naturally we couldn ' t blame kantorek for this . ]
#193 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but the first death we saw shattered this belief . ]
#195 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness . ]
#208 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ while he was unconscious someone had stolen his watch . ]
#231 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i think of the time when we went away . ]
#251 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ how can one calm him without making him suspicious ? ]
#343 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ when kemmerich is dead it will be too late . ]
#346 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ only the facts are real and important for us . ]
#416 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ only thus were we prepared for what awaited us . ]
#425 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he raises himself on the pillow with his elbows . ]
#445 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ here they patch up far worse things than that . ]
#470 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ in a couple of hours it will be over . ]
#612 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and there ' s nothing to put on it . ]
#623 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " there ' s nothing to be had here . ]
#648 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the artilleryman ' s pipe drops from his mouth . ]
#658 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it lights up the empty room of the factory . ]
#666 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it should be boiled first in a little water . ]
#702 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the windows of the barracks are empty and dark . ]
#703 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ from some of them trousers are hanging to dry . ]
#709 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ farther back than that our thoughts dare not go . ]
#716 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " that was our corporal ' s favourite game . ]
#727 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ disgruntled he counts out the money from his wallet . ]
#748 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ now what ' s the use of all that ? ]
#777 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the man underneath of course had a vile time . ]
#780 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the idea was not low but ill - conceived . ]
#785 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he winks at me and rubs his paws thoughtfully . ]
#790 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we had sworn for weeks past to do this . ]
#867 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the fumes of powder taste bitter on the tongue . ]
#898 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the body with one bound is in full readiness . ]
#962 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the dry bursts of the machine - guns rattle . ]
#973 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at regular intervals we ram in the iron stakes . ]
#1003 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ green rockets shoot up on the sky - line . ]
#1031 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then suddenly he turns fiery red and looks confused . ]
#1037 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ get along -- " -- " he goes off . ]
#1054 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then as if deliberately the fire dies down again . ]
#1124 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the flames of the explosions light up the graveyard . ]
#1128 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it is impossible for anyone to break through it . ]
#1145 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ a hole is torn up in front of me . ]
#1155 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i grasp it with my eyes as with fists . ]
#1177 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ with a crash something black bears down on us . ]
#1183 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ kat and i proceed to free the wounded arm . ]
#1221 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it is one mass of mincemeat and bone splinters . ]
#1228 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i look for something to bind loosely round it . ]
#1235 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " we don ' t know if he understands . ]
#1252 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ two of our dead lie in the upturned graves . ]
#1256 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the wounded are taken to the dressing - station . ]
#1278 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the lice are simply thrown into this little pan . ]
#1316 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " müller is insatiable and gives himself no peace . ]
#1360 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ everybody wants to be well in with a bobby . ]
#1400 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " but albert ' s no friend of his . ]
#1426 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " himmelstoss is a raging book of army regulations . ]
#1479 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " we remember mighty little of all that rubbish . ]
#1502 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " -- he makes a gesture toward the front . ]
#1521 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " it will go pretty hard with us all . ]
#1557 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i go into the hut and put tjaden wise . ]
#1586 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the case comes up for trial in the evening . ]
#1607 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ in many ways we are treated quite like men . ]
#1646 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but if i make the least movement he growls . ]
#1649 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ inch by inch i move my hand toward it . ]
#1650 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i have the feeling that it lasts an hour . ]
#1654 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ slowly i take a deep breath and become calmer . ]
#1704 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ with it we have army bread dipped in gravy . ]
#1711 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ afterwards i smoke a cigarette and kat a cigar . ]
#1740 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the organisation surpasses itself in that kind of thing . ]
#1742 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the first night we try to get our bearings . ]
#1793 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ next day there was an issue of edamer cheese . ]
#1794 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ each man gets almost a quarter of a cheese . ]
#1821 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at night i squat in the listening - post . ]
#1829 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ all day the sky is hung with observation balloons . ]
#1832 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we wake up in the middle of the night . ]
#1864 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ a shell lands square in front of our post . ]
#1885 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we would gladly have them again to eat now . ]
#1937 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the first recruit seems actually to have gone insane . ]
#1962 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ haie and kropp begin with the hand - grenades . ]
#2017 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ suddenly in the pursuit we reach the enemy line . ]
#2053 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i am on sentry and stare into the darkness . ]
#2078 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but these last few days it has been unbearable . ]
#2097 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we are no longer untroubled -- we are indifferent . ]
#2141 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the days are hot and the dead lie unburied . ]
#2192 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it glows until it dies out on his lips . ]
#2199 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ reinforcements have again been sent up to our sector . ]
#2241 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ another wave of our attack has just come up . ]
#2254 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ in the few hours of rest we teach them . ]
#2270 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but on every yard there lies a dead man . ]
#2352 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " i have some white trousers at home too . ]
#2373 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ on the other side though one occasionally sees inhabitants . ]
#2389 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but we don ' t dare to do that . ]
#2390 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it is forbidden to cross to the opposite bank . ]
#2410 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they go off and frequently turn and look back . ]
#2425 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ tjaden drops on his sack of straw and snores . ]
#2434 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we make off with our boots in our hands . ]
#2441 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ leer trips over a root and skins his elbows . ]
#2448 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the door of the court - yard stands open . ]
#2473 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he ' s an old hand at the game . ]
#2475 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ my desires are strangely compounded of yearning and misery . ]
#2497 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then we hear footsteps and dodge behind a shrub . ]
#2531 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but she merely nods and takes no special notice . ]
#2539 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the other two have to go back to duty . ]
#2542 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " they go off and wave once or twice . ]
#2564 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the others put their baggage ready for getting out . ]
#2667 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ one of them said it is probably cancer again . ]
#2776 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and of that you are not able to judge . ]
#2779 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " he blows his nose and wipes his beard . ]
#2788 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " i imagined leave would be different from this . ]
#2825 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i want to think myself back into that time . ]
#2829 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there are a couple of flowers on the table . ]
#2854 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but i put it away and take out another . ]
#2855 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there are passages in it that have been marked . ]
#2863 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ slowly i place the books back in the shelves . ]
#2877 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ a cross between a dud and a pickled cucumber . ]
#2939 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ kantorek in a fury walks with his head down . ]
#2943 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " people have begun to watch for them coming . ]
#2948 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ laughed like the deuce when he heard the story . ]
#2959 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ already the sense of parting begins to intrude itself . ]
#2974 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i must go and see kemmerich ' s mother . ]
#3003 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " " by everything that is sacred to you ? ]
#3054 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ her face is a white gleam in the darkness . ]
#3065 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ you can make much better use of them here . ]
#3091 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ eight i already know the camp on the moors . ]
#3092 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it was here that himmelstoss gave tjaden his education . ]
#3114 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ alongside our camp is the big russian prison camp . ]
#3148 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain . ]
#3158 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they rarely speak and then only a few words . ]
#3182 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they bow to me and then light the cigarettes . ]
#3204 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ all day we sit in the soldiers ' home . ]
#3218 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ she said that then she would have some company . ]
#3241 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ afterwards i accompany them both to the railway station . ]
#3268 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the company comes back in two days ' time . ]
#3269 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there is no object in sending me up now . ]
#3278 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we arrange our sacks of straw side by side . ]
#3308 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we are curious to see what he looks like . ]
#3326 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " " you can bet your boots on it . ]
#3364 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " " then what exactly is the war for ? ]
#3442 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i have not heard it coming and am terrified . ]
#3452 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i still continue to lie in the shallow bowl . ]
#3525 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the crash of the shells bursts in my ears . ]
#3556 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the fire is sweeping very low to the ground . ]
#3608 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i look for the knife and find it again . ]
#3629 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ soon the silence is more unbearable than the groans . ]
#3673 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it slips out of my hand and falls open . ]
#3678 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i take them out and try to read them . ]
#3721 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then i crawl out of the shell - hole . ]
#3728 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but i am suspicious until i recognise our helmets . ]
#3744 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " you can ' t do anything about it . ]
#3765 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " sergeant oellrich returns to the fire - step . ]
#3766 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the muzzle of his rifle searches to and fro . ]
#3768 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and now i hardly understand it myself any more . ]
#3772 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ ten we have dropped in for a good job . ]
#3780 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the entrance is protected by a separate concrete wall . ]
#3818 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but we cannot find a grater for the potatoes . ]
#3823 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he even mixes a white sauce for the cauliflower . ]
#3827 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we all stand round them as before an altar . ]
#3855 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at two o ' clock we start the meal . ]
#3858 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ punctually at half - past six we begin supper . ]
#3865 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and that wakes up our own appetites once more . ]
#3869 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ fresh baby pig is very griping to the bowels . ]
#3874 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ burning houses stand out like torches against the night . ]
#3910 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ above us swells the silken cover like a baldaquin . ]
#3911 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ each man has a long cigar in his mouth . ]
#3944 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " " i think -- " " then out ! ]
#3952 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i seize him by the arm and shake him . ]
#3957 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the shot is just a little above his knee . ]
#3960 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ albert binds up my wounds with his field dressing . ]
#3974 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " how far above the knee am i hit ? ]
#4030 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we might have made some use of the things . ]
#4037 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there is a crowd of red - cross nurses . ]
#4047 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " can ' t you get in by yourself ? ]
#4067 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " now i don ' t care any more . ]
#4068 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i scramble into bed and pull up the covers . ]
#4137 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " she gives me a thermometer and goes on . ]
#4139 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ these army thermometers are not made for old soldiers . ]
#4178 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " and it is seven o ' clock already . ]
#4183 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " but we are saying prayers for you too . ]
#4201 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at noon the hospital inspector arrives and abuses us . ]
#4208 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " a man with a bristling beard sits up . ]
#4218 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " but why did you say you did it ? ]
#4272 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ sometimes there are red - cross voluntary aid sisters . ]
#4294 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " " but what do they do that for ? ]
#4328 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " they do not answer but wheel him out . ]
#4329 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at the door he tries to raise himself up . ]
#4366 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ better to have a club foot than be dead . ]
#4399 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and i am given crutches to hobble around on . ]
#4410 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ every two or three hours the vessel is emptied . ]
#4436 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he goes round the room perpetually with the letter . ]
#4439 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he has not seen his wife for two years . ]
#4464 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the woman turns a little red and looks embarrassed . ]
#4500 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ parting from my friend albert kropp was very hard . ]
#4546 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ in the evening detering was not to be seen . ]
#4551 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i sensed something amiss and went over to him . ]
#4559 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ you may even be sent back as a farmer . ]
#4721 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i give kat some tea from my water bottle . ]
#4743 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ " i write his address in my pocket book . ]
#4750 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ after a few minutes i straighten myself up again . ]
#4774 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ only ten minutes ago i was talking to him . ]
#4799 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there are not many of the old hands left . ]
#39 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " that may do for you , " he said . ]
#58 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " tjaden beamed : " what a bean - feast ! ]
#233 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ she wept continually , her face was bloated and swollen . ]
#277 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " are you usually allowed to give it , then ? ]
#307 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ kropp rails : he is glad that he can speak . ]
#340 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ kemmerich will die ; it is immaterial who gets them . ]
#462 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ and besides , they will always be making new improvements . ]
#715 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ kropp laughs suddenly and says : " change at lohne ! ]
#751 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ on the contrary , he is praised for being strict . ]
#800 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ we trembled with suspense , hoping he would be alone . ]
#850 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ they are making the pace , they overtake us continually . ]
#880 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " the tommies are firing already , " says kropp . ]
#886 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " says müller , " their clocks must be fast . ]
#895 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ that is no figure of speech ; it is fact . ]
#980 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i try also , but it has turned too chilly . ]
#991 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " i sit up , i feel myself strangely alone . ]
#1038 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ things become quieter , but the cries do not cease . ]
#1103 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ katczinsky is restive , that ' s a bad sign . ]
#1178 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ it lands close beside us ; a coffin thrown up . ]
#1346 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ haie chews and grins : " it lasts longer though . ]
#1387 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss is a little hesitant , his gait becomes slower . ]
#1418 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ a dirty hound , that ' s what you are . ]
#1458 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " three of them are lieutenants , " says müller . ]
#1482 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ müller says thoughtfully : " what ' s the use ? ]
#1518 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i don ' t see anything at all , albert . ]
#1735 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " they ' re for us , " growls detering . ]
#1858 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ the attack does not come , but the bombardment continues . ]
#1911 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " wait a bit , the shelling will stop soon . ]
#1978 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ we do not fight , we defend ourselves against annihilation . ]
#2048 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ night comes , out of the craters rise the mists . ]
#2198 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ we have lost a good many men , mostly recruits . ]
#2399 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ they laugh -- sure , that ' s their house . ]
#2504 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ unobserved , we arrive again at our sacks of straw . ]
#2594 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ then i say fiercely : " bring me a handkerchief . ]
#2616 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " " and it is saturday , " i add . ]
#2617 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " sit here beside me , " says my mother . ]
#2647 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ you would not understand , you could never realise it . ]
#2851 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i am a soldier , i must cling to that . ]
#2928 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ he is breathing hard , and his panting is music . ]
#2987 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " she pleads with me gently : " tell me . ]
#2997 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ so i say rather impatiently : " he died immediately . ]
#3001 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ then she says slowly : " will you swear it ? ]
#3030 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i may come over from there one sunday , perhaps . ]
#3042 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " and be very careful at the front , paul . ]
#3136 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ the majority do nothing to them , just ignore them . ]
#3213 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " in the luisa hospital , " says my father . ]
#3465 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ but i cannot reassure myself ; i become terribly faint . ]
#3531 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ they have not broken through ; they have to retreat . ]
#3535 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ they are raked with fire , the attack is repulsed . ]
#3690 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i have killed the printer , gã © rard duval . ]
#3763 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " i would not do it , " i say . ]
#3927 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i hear albert cry out ; he is beside me . ]
#4250 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " franz , are you quite sure you are bleeding ? ]
#4396 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ he looks round : " what do you say now ? ]
#4566 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ nothing happened ; in the morning he was as usual . ]
#4609 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i wear them , for they fit me quite well . ]
#4738 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ " " give me another cigarette , " he says . ]
#261 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ " well , we could exchange , " suggests müller again . ]
#650 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ " real bread , by god , and still hot too ? ]
#758 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ " true , " growls kat , " they always do . ]
#1171 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ cautiously , the mouth applied to the valve , i breathe . ]
#1571 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ " " very good , " says kropp , getting up . ]
#1905 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ these hunted , protruding eyes , we know them too well . ]
#2744 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ yes , it is dreadful , but we must carry on . ]
#2862 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ words , words , words -- they do not reach me . ]
#3532 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ i sink down again , huddled , strained to the uttermost . ]
#3976 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ " at least four inches , albert , " i answer . ]
#2801 | T: 9 | I: 4 | [ they have worries , aims , desires , that i cannot comprehend . ]
#94 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " it doesn ' t cost you anything ! ]
#153 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " he ' s up at st . ]
#158 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " kantorek sends you all his best wishes . ]
#223 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they are not so much lines as marks . ]
#254 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ müller is delighted at the sight of them . ]
#263 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " still kemmerich is not to be moved . ]
#275 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i hastily intervene and give him a cigarette . ]
#286 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ müller returns to the subject of the boots . ]
#288 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in these boots i get blister after blister . ]
#297 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i could do with a tot of rum . ]
#298 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ müller pulls up some grass and chews it . ]
#300 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " we walk on for a long time . ]
#342 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he has more right than a hospital orderly . ]
#350 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we had no definite plans for our future . ]
#362 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions . ]
#396 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you wait till you ' re spoken to . ]
#440 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ once you ' ve got over the operation . ]
#444 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ what is it anyway -- an amputated leg ? ]
#500 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ if only the letter were sent off already ! ]
#539 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the face is still wet from the tears . ]
#546 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the orderly asks about the pay - book . ]
#561 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we go in and he tries them on . ]
#568 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they are about two years younger than us . ]
#581 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but what do you say to haricot beans ? ]
#629 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " that ' s a bad business ! ]
#634 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " just to explore the place a bit . ]
#641 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp divides a cigarette and hands me half . ]
#687 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp on the other hand is a thinker . ]
#724 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ meanwhile the german aeroplane has been shot down . ]
#754 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he can only do that in the army . ]
#767 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ here tjaden comes up with a flushed face . ]
#779 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ that was himmelstoss ' s system of selfeducation . ]
#788 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we were due to leave next morning early . ]
#799 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i had a bed - cover with me . ]
#819 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then he stood up and set to work . ]
#826 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss yelled and made off on all fours . ]
#831 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we had become successful students of his method . ]
#845 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the roads are worn and full of holes . ]
#851 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we joke with them and they answer back . ]
#855 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ again i hear distinctly the cackle of geese . ]
#904 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ to me the front is a mysterious whirlpool . ]
#926 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ under cover of the wood we climb out . ]
#951 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in the meantime it has become pitch dark . ]
#968 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the searchlights begin to sweep the dark sky . ]
#969 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they slide along it like gigantic tapering rulers . ]
#1029 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he sees his helmet and puts it on . ]
#1077 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but now the sweat breaks out on us . ]
#1080 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ from the dark group stretchers move off again . ]
#1082 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the black heap convulses and then sinks down . ]
#1098 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it is time we returned to the lorries . ]
#1134 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ my sleeve is torn away by a splinter . ]
#1144 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i wipe the mud out of my eyes . ]
#1156 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ with one leap i must be in it . ]
#1160 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " i grab for my gas - mask . ]
#1179 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i see kat move and i crawl across . ]
#1189 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ for the moment we can do no more . ]
#1196 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ now something stands up a few yards distant . ]
#1210 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the man on the ground is a recruit . ]
#1212 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kat restrains my hand and stoops over him . ]
#1213 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " where ' s it got you comrade ? ]
#1223 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ this lad won ' t walk any more . ]
#1251 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it was in fact quite a short bombardment . ]
#1253 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we merely throw the earth in on them . ]
#1261 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ there is more room now than there was . ]
#1295 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he tells me he often dreams of it . ]
#1312 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " you ' ve a wife and children . ]
#1317 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he wakes haie westhus out of his dream . ]
#1354 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " haie is extraordinarily set on his idea . ]
#1357 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " he ' s already sweating on it . ]
#1362 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ haie looks at him sadly and is silent . ]
#1378 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " then he gets up and walks off . ]
#1380 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ his wife has to look after the farm . ]
#1389 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ no one makes any motion to stand up . ]
#1407 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " and do you know what you are ? ]
#1409 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " since when have we become so familiar ? ]
#1412 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he didn ' t expect this open hostility . ]
#1427 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the kaiser couldn ' t be more insulted . ]
#1431 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " will you obey my order or not ? ]
#1433 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ at the same time he ventilates his backside . ]
#1445 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " five days clink are five days rest . ]
#1450 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ there aren ' t any worries for him . ]
#1465 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " how many children had charles the bald ? ]
#1484 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " i consider that out of the question . ]
#1490 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " it ' s a bit better . ]
#1509 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " we are all utterly at a loss . ]
#1516 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but i can ' t even imagine anything . ]
#1525 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it is the common fate of our generation . ]
#1562 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ half an hour later himmelstoss is back again . ]
#1590 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss is recalled and i repeat my statement . ]
#1610 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then we play skat far into the night . ]
#1614 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we climb up on a munition - wagon . ]
#1632 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but i haven ' t quite enough weight . ]
#1637 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in the dark these white patches are terrifying . ]
#1660 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ as soon as he sees me we run . ]
#1669 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we put the feathers carefully to one side . ]
#1750 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ this is the third time in four weeks . ]
#1758 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it is this chance that makes us indifferent . ]
#1773 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ almost every man has had his bread gnawed . ]
#1777 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ on the bread was riding a fat rat . ]
#1778 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ at last we put a stop to it . ]
#1796 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ our forebodings increase as rum is served out . ]
#1799 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ ammunition and hand - grenades become more plentiful . ]
#1805 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but the bayonet has practically lost its importance . ]
#1846 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the explosion of mines mingles with the gunfire . ]
#1847 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ that is the most dementing convulsion of all . ]
#1866 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we are buried and must dig ourselves out . ]
#1869 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the recruits calm themselves when they see him . ]
#1872 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ no one had thought of it except tjaden . ]
#1932 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but the effect is bad enough even so . ]
#1988 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they did not count on so much resistance . ]
#2008 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we have lost all feeling for one another . ]
#2033 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ there is no further attack by the enemy . ]
#2036 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then gradually we become something like men again . ]
#2051 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then long streaks stretch from crater to crater . ]
#2134 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it is easy to understand what he cries . ]
#2137 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ by evening the voice dwindles to a croaking . ]
#2138 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but it persists still through the whole night . ]
#2144 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ many have their bellies swollen up like balloons . ]
#2153 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the collectors merely assert that they are valuable . ]
#2164 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the parachutes are turned to more practical uses . ]
#2175 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they settle on the teeth of a skull . ]
#2217 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they have not yet learned what to do . ]
#2222 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we dive into the same dug - out . ]
#2246 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i come after and watch him go over . ]
#2292 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ our company needs more than a hundred reinforcements . ]
#2347 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " then she would be older than us ! ]
#2364 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ let ' s go and explore a bit . ]
#2372 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the houses on our side have been abandoned . ]
#2388 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they nod and beckon us to come over . ]
#2405 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the slim brunette does a two - step . ]
#2408 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ leer nearly drowns trying to demonstrate a sausage . ]
#2427 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then he drops back again and sleeps on . ]
#2433 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but it is not far and quite dark . ]
#2469 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ her mouth speaks words i do not understand . ]
#2492 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the rustling poplars loom large in the darkness . ]
#2524 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ over us hangs a dense cloud of smoke . ]
#2546 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i sit down on my pack and wait . ]
#2553 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ these names mark the boundaries of my youth . ]
#2597 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ now i hear my mother ' s voice . ]
#2601 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " she is ill -- " she replies . ]
#2603 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " she lies still in the dim light . ]
#2622 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ everything i could have wished for has happened . ]
#2638 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " is it pretty bad for food here ? ]
#2653 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " it is my mother who says that . ]
#2729 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but i cannot get on with the people . ]
#2767 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they argue about what we ought to annex . ]
#2812 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in the corner is a small iron stove . ]
#2842 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the backs of the books stand in rows . ]
#2897 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the tunic must have belonged to a giant . ]
#2901 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the whole rig - out is just pitiful . ]
#2903 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you seem as though you can never learn . ]
#2949 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he hasn ' t any time for schoolmasters . ]
#2963 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the hours pass quickly if a man broods . ]
#3005 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ -- such things change pretty quickly with us . ]
#3059 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and so i take her to her room . ]
#3090 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i ought never to have come on leave . ]
#3102 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it is bearable if one expects nothing better . ]
#3154 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i am often on guard over the russians . ]
#3200 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the voices cease and the violin continues alone . ]
#3217 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ she wanted to be in the third herself . ]
#3223 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ his face is broken and full of furrows . ]
#3235 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " have you any money at all ? ]
#3297 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ everything that is torn is exchanged for new . ]
#3307 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we stand to attention and the kaiser appears . ]
#3388 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ just you look at the shell - holes . ]
#3397 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the good ones were merely for the inspection . ]
#3411 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it ' s the concussion that does it . ]
#3441 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ a bomb or something lands close beside me . ]
#3462 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ my eyes burn with staring into the dark . ]
#3470 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they are our people moving along the trench . ]
#3473 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ at once a new warmth flows through me . ]
#3485 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i have not established touch with the others . ]
#3487 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it would be bad to get hit now . ]
#3488 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ then a new fear lays hold of me . ]
#3573 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i shrink together and involuntarily look at it . ]
#3666 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the pocket - book is easy to find . ]
#3668 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in it is the book with his name . ]
#3672 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ irresolutely i take the wallet in my hand . ]
#3704 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it seems to me to come quickly now . ]
#3736 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in a few words i tell what happened . ]
#3750 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ on the fire - step stand some snipers . ]
#3783 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we make the best use of such opportunities . ]
#3863 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ a little grey cat sits in the entrance . ]
#3885 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kat says it is good for loose bowels . ]
#3912 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and thus from aloft we survey the scene . ]
#3923 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ all are silent as they pass us by . ]
#3936 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ so we wade in up to our necks . ]
#3956 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp pitches in and i bandage him up . ]
#4016 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it rains and the station has no roof . ]
#4058 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i am not equal to such overwhelming refinement . ]
#4069 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ a hand gropes over the bed - cover . ]
#4072 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ an hour later we notice we are moving . ]
#4079 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " do you know where the latrine is ? ]
#4119 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ sometimes it halts and the dead are unloaded . ]
#4160 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i wake up just as it grows light . ]
#4248 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ still she does not put in an appearance . ]
#4252 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " otherwise we shall be getting cursed again . ]
#4260 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and added to that is the everlasting praying . ]
#4262 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " asks josef hamacher of the shooting licence . ]
#4286 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they have put him in the dead room . ]
#4302 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " does everybody know about it then ? ]
#4313 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and then little peter begins to get worse . ]
#4373 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ they have taken him and amputated his leg . ]
#4379 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ one of them is a very youthful musician . ]
#4387 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ in the morning he has lock - jaw . ]
#4426 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ our knowledge of life is limited to death . ]
#4429 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the oldest man in our room is lewandowski . ]
#4441 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but something else occupies lewandowski ' s thoughts . ]
#4459 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ so one of us goes out to prospect . ]
#4463 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " the two speak together in an undertone . ]
#4487 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ rag bandages have become scarce at the front . ]
#4505 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ our life alternates between billets and the front . ]
#4526 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ that is the only way to save ourselves . ]
#4558 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " " perhaps you will get leave soon . ]
#4560 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " he nodded but he was far away . ]
#4563 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he gave it to me without a murmur . ]
#4587 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but behind us the attack crashes ever nearer . ]
#4658 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ bertinck is lying in the hole with us . ]
#4696 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we do not know whether we still live . ]
#4724 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ " he is silent and looks at me . ]
#4730 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the anguish of solitude rises up in me . ]
#4753 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ my lips tremble as i try to think . ]
#4754 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but i smile - - kat is saved . ]
#4766 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i wipe it away and peer at kat . ]
#4772 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i ' ll lay any money on that . ]
#4787 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ i nod and he gives them to me . ]
#37 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " tjaden grinned : " we are all here . ]
#179 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ and what kat said , he had thought about . ]
#335 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ all the same , we are not often sad . ]
#389 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ he raved , but the limit had been reached . ]
#521 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ but he only weeps , his head turned aside . ]
#599 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " you get off scot free , of course . ]
#721 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ then came the command : " change at lohne ! ]
#806 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss seemed a little elevated ; he was singing . ]
#844 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ the engines drone , the lorries bump and rattle . ]
#970 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ one of them pauses , and quivers a little . ]
#1057 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ detering raves and yells out : " shoot them ! ]
#1462 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " says kropp reminiscently , and roars with laughter . ]
#1487 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ and if you do get through , what then ? ]
#1505 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " wonders müller , and even he is troubled . ]
#1696 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ is my face wet , and where am i ? ]
#1699 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ then he says : " it ' s done . ]
#1823 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i am cautious and tense , my heart thumps . ]
#2604 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ then she asks anxiously : " are you wounded ? ]
#2625 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " dear boy , " says my mother softly . ]
#2635 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ there is a distance , a veil between us . ]
#2646 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " mother , what should i answer to that ! ]
#2950 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ besides , i ' m sweet with his daughter . ]
#3055 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " now you must go to sleep , mother . ]
#3550 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i have but one desire , to get away . ]
#3749 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " look there for instance , " points kat . ]
#3824 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i fry the pancakes , four at a time . ]
#3959 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ my trousers are bloody and my arm , too . ]
#3992 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " chloroform the scoundrel , " he roars madly . ]
#4091 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " you haven ' t any fever , though . ]
#4123 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ they itch terribly , and i cannot scratch myself . ]
#4209 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ everyone is excited ; why should he report himself ? ]
#4287 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " " what do you mean , dead room ? ]
#4335 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ we are all excited ; but we say nothing . ]
#4350 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " " what should a man do , then ? ]
#4773 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ " i shake my head : " not possible . ]
#4824 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ whether i have subdued it , i know not . ]
#172 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ that was joseph behm , a plump , homely fellow . ]
#341 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ why , then , should müller not succeed to them ? ]
#530 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ " he says : " bed 26 , amputated thigh . ]
#2908 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ boettcher is there too , boettcher , our school porter . ]
#3533 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ the banging , the creeping , the clanging becomes audible . ]
#3626 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ in the afternoon , about three , he is dead . ]
#3969 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ " now for home , albert , " i say . ]
#4028 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ " and our bags of grub , too , albert . ]
#4462 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ now ' s your chance , johann , set to . ]
#4649 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ in one attack our company commander , bertinck , falls . ]
#364 | T: 8 | I: 4 | [ kropp , müller , kemmerich , and i went to no . ]
#2858 | T: 8 | I: 4 | [ speedily more join the heap , papers , magazines , letters . ]
#5 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that puts a man in fine trim . ]
#15 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that ' s enough for a day . ]
#35 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ anyone can see the beans are done . ]
#48 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " suddenly a vision came over tjaden . ]
#69 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " you might be generous for once . ]
#75 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " we began to jostle the fellow . ]
#130 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ these are wonderfully care - free hours . ]
#137 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we read letters and newspapers and smoke . ]
#144 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one could sit like this for ever . ]
#216 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " we look at his bed covering . ]
#217 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ his leg lies under a wire basket . ]
#226 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it already has command in the eyes . ]
#250 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich starts on again about the watch . ]
#302 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " what has kantorek written to you ? ]
#325 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ beyond this our life did not extend . ]
#329 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we had as yet taken no root . ]
#332 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are able to think beyond it . ]
#344 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ therefore müller is already on the watch . ]
#360 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but we soon accustomed ourselves to it . ]
#407 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ after that he left us in peace . ]
#419 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i sit by kemmerich ' s bed . ]
#441 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " he beckons me to bend down . ]
#460 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are fixed on to the muscles . ]
#463 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " for a while he lies still . ]
#477 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but he couldn ' t stand cigarettes . ]
#485 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there he lies now -- but why ? ]
#525 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ suddenly kemmerich groans and begins to gurgle . ]
#537 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we are by kemmerich ' s bed . ]
#544 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ outside they are lying on the floor . ]
#564 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ with it goes hot tea and rum . ]
#575 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " kat asks one of the youngsters . ]
#589 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that ' s what the prussians say . ]
#593 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " ginger was glad i took it . ]
#614 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we use our blankets to cover ourselves . ]
#657 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ haie makes a fire on the floor . ]
#672 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ his masterpiece was four boxes of lobsters . ]
#695 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ burning midday in the barrack - yard . ]
#707 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky paints it all in lively colours . ]
#723 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we practised this for hours on end . ]
#726 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kropp has lost the bottle of beer . ]
#768 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he is so excited that he stutters . ]
#770 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he ' s coming to the front ! ]
#837 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the motor lorries roll up after dark . ]
#861 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " of course kat has their number . ]
#863 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the lorries arrive at the artillery lines . ]
#883 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are beginning an hour too soon . ]
#888 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i can feel it in my bones . ]
#890 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ three guns open fire close beside us . ]
#925 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we pass by the soup - kitchens . ]
#932 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ their helmets gleam softly in the moonlight . ]
#938 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a column -- not men at all . ]
#942 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we push on to the pioneer dump . ]
#977 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ after a few hours it is done . ]
#979 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ most of us lie down and sleep . ]
#992 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it ' s good kat is there . ]
#998 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " we ' re in for it . ]
#1016 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it ' s got someone pretty badly . ]
#1021 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ red rockets shoot up to the sky . ]
#1022 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ apparently there ' s an attack coming . ]
#1023 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ where we are it is still quiet . ]
#1026 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it ' s all right this time . ]
#1055 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the screaming of the beasts becomes louder . ]
#1070 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ detering raises up his gun and aims . ]
#1074 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we sit down and hold our ears . ]
#1084 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but still it is not the end . ]
#1088 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the soldier runs up and shoots it . ]
#1090 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we take our hands from our ears . ]
#1095 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " he returns to it once again . ]
#1100 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ three o ' clock in the morning . ]
#1106 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " i wish i were back home . ]
#1107 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " home -- he means the huts . ]
#1130 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we must stay here in the graveyard . ]
#1152 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but the shelling is stronger than everything . ]
#1154 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ before me gapes the shell - hole . ]
#1161 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ some distance from me there lies someone . ]
#1193 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a grey light filters through to us . ]
#1204 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the graveyard is a mass of wreckage . ]
#1239 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ now he is numb and feels nothing . ]
#1320 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " how does it come about exactly ? ]
#1350 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ you can see what he is thinking . ]
#1355 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he ' s in love with it . ]
#1384 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he comes straight up to our group . ]
#1390 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kropp looks up at him with interest . ]
#1393 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " a couple of seconds go by . ]
#1416 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but tjaden gets in ahead of him . ]
#1429 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " " anything else you would like ? ]
#1440 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " " do you think he will ? ]
#1468 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " when was the battle of zana ? ]
#1485 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " we might take a special exam . ]
#1494 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ albert cleans his nails with a knife . ]
#1537 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the orderly room shows signs of life . ]
#1538 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss seems to have stirred them up . ]
#1576 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ and that ' s a mere nothing . ]
#1605 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ close arrest would have meant the cellar . ]
#1617 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the shed belongs to a regimental headquarters . ]
#1661 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ at last we can take a breather . ]
#1665 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the single window space is heavily curtained . ]
#1688 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a grand smell gradually fills the hut . ]
#1720 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but first we pack away the feathers . ]
#1721 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kropp and tjaden take us for magicians . ]
#1722 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then they get busy with their teeth . ]
#1728 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ six there are rumours of an offensive . ]
#1739 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ -- the coffins are really for us . ]
#1762 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in the interval it had been buried . ]
#1767 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we must look out for our bread . ]
#1855 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it is falling in the rear too . ]
#1903 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one of the recruits has a fit . ]
#1907 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he had collapsed like a rotten tree . ]
#1956 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the wire entanglements are torn to pieces . ]
#1958 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we see the storm - troops coming . ]
#1987 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but the enemy ' s casualties increase . ]
#1996 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the attack is crushed by our artillery . ]
#2019 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in this way we suffer few casualties . ]
#2147 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the sky is blue and without clouds . ]
#2155 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but haie at least gives a reason . ]
#2157 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ at this the friesians explode with mirth . ]
#2166 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kropp and i use them as handkerchiefs . ]
#2173 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ what can they be looking for here ? ]
#2195 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ suddenly the shelling begins to pound again . ]
#2298 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ only tjaden is still reserved and suspicious . ]
#2375 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ three women come strolling along the bank . ]
#2378 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they laugh and stop to watch us . ]
#2391 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there are sentries on all the bridges . ]
#2392 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it ' s impossible without a pass . ]
#2394 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are not allowed to pass either . ]
#2437 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we put the things under our arms . ]
#2465 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ no doubt we all look very young . ]
#2491 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the night air cools our hot bodies . ]
#2503 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in the morning he will curse us . ]
#2505 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i am called to the orderly room . ]
#2518 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we are all a little bit drunk . ]
#2520 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ shall i meet all these fellows again ? ]
#2525 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ where would a soldier be without tobacco ? ]
#2605 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " and i feel her searching glance . ]
#2608 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i am afraid to make a light . ]
#2663 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " what is the matter with her ? ]
#2666 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ several doctors have been to see her . ]
#2687 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ even yet he has not had enough . ]
#2707 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i turn about smartly and march off . ]
#2713 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ collar and tie give me some trouble . ]
#2716 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i look at myself in the glass . ]
#2752 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ what is the spirit like out there ? ]
#2772 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the enemy may have too many reserves . ]
#2818 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ so i purchased only " collected works . ]
#2822 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one shelf is filled with school books . ]
#2846 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ nothing -- nothing -- my disquietude grows . ]
#2857 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ already they are piled up beside me . ]
#2866 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ still i do not give up hope . ]
#2876 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ ' you should have seen his face ! ]
#2878 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he tried once again to chum up . ]
#2879 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ so i snubbed him a bit harder . ]
#2892 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " we go to the parade ground . ]
#2895 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he is wearing a faded blue tunic . ]
#2907 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " i can hardly believe my eyes . ]
#2919 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that makes altogether forty paces double march . ]
#2935 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the extra fatigues are next detailed off . ]
#2983 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i have felt how terribly he died . ]
#2994 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ why doesn ' t she stop worrying ? ]
#3016 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it is the last evening at home . ]
#3060 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i stay with her a little while . ]
#3064 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we have plenty to eat out there . ]
#3087 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i ought never to have come here . ]
#3119 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one can imagine what they find there . ]
#3140 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they exchange whatever they possess for bread . ]
#3183 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ now red points glow in every face . ]
#3187 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i am on guard during the burial . ]
#3234 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " mother has been ill too long . ]
#3245 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but i have no taste for them . ]
#3250 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the first aeroplanes appear in the sky . ]
#3255 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ no one knows exactly where it lies . ]
#3260 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that does not sound cheerful to me . ]
#3267 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant - major detains me there . ]
#3270 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " what was it like on leave ? ]
#3287 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i can hardly control myself any longer . ]
#3324 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ his otherwise prosy fancy is blowing bubbles . ]
#3336 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ now who ' s in the right ? ]
#3373 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he has everything he can want already . ]
#3400 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ at several places there are tremendous craters . ]
#3403 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in the branches dead men are hanging . ]
#3419 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the dead man lies on his face . ]
#3433 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there is moderate machine - gun fire . ]
#3435 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a parachute star - shell opens out . ]
#3451 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the sweat breaks out from every pore . ]
#3457 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ my limbs are glued to the earth . ]
#3467 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there i hear sounds and drop back . ]
#3482 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it reveals too little and too much . ]
#3489 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i can no longer remember the direction . ]
#3534 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one single cry yelling amongst it all . ]
#3568 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it is equally heavy from both sides . ]
#3574 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then my eyes remain glued to it . ]
#3585 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ hundreds of miles away with one bound . ]
#3598 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i have not brought it with me . ]
#3646 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ if my mother could see me -- . ]
#3740 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i do not mention the dead printer . ]
#3746 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that is what you are here for . ]
#3752 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ once and again a shot cracks out . ]
#3757 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " what do you say to that ? ]
#3839 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but frying the pancakes is getting difficult . ]
#3862 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ late in the evening we hear mewing . ]
#3872 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i have been out nine times myself . ]
#3879 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we let them have their own way . ]
#3902 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ two big motor lorries take us away . ]
#3907 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ each man has a bag to himself . ]
#3915 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ slowly the lorries roll down the road . ]
#3922 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a few carry miserable - looking dolls . ]
#3947 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the road leads towards the munition dump . ]
#3958 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then i take a look at myself . ]
#4001 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " then i am put in plaster . ]
#4044 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i cast a glance at the bed . ]
#4075 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the train rides easily over the rails . ]
#4098 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i am lifted up into bed again . ]
#4125 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the country glides quietly past the window . ]
#4128 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " how far does the train go ? ]
#4150 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ albert and i are put off together . ]
#4172 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " a minute later a sister appears . ]
#4215 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " " reinforcement - reservist josef hamacher . ]
#4219 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it wasn ' t you at all ! ]
#4236 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there are eight men in our room . ]
#4254 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ can ' t anybody make a light ? ]
#4268 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ and none of us here can walk . ]
#4280 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we would go through fire for her . ]
#4283 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ franz wachter does not regain his strength . ]
#4293 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ it is generally called the dying room . ]
#4311 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ she has to go to the mortuary . ]
#4371 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are brought back chloroformed and plastered . ]
#4375 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ now he will hardly speak any more . ]
#4385 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the blunt prongs had already penetrated deep . ]
#4394 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he is back from the dying room . ]
#4418 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a hospital alone shows what war is . ]
#4428 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ and what shall come out of us ? ]
#4461 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " not a soul to be seen . ]
#4473 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in the process we almost forget lewandowski . ]
#4502 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ eleven we count the weeks no more . ]
#4541 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there is the mad story of detering . ]
#4569 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ various fellows have already got into holland . ]
#4570 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but at roll call he was missed . ]
#4575 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we have heard nothing more of detering . ]
#4588 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ a few minutes and we are lost . ]
#4594 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the other describes the place to him . ]
#4637 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " this answer tickles us all immensely . ]
#4652 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we occupy a crater and get surrounded . ]
#4711 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " shall we go on again kat ? ]
#4735 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " with rest it will get better . ]
#4786 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ " the lance - corporal asks me . ]
#4796 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ only the militiaman stanislaus katczinsky has died . ]
#152 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ kropp asks : " anyone seen kemmerich lately ? ]
#154 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ joseph ' s , " i tell him . ]
#246 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " we have brought your things , franz . ]
#293 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " done for , " says müller emphatically . ]
#390 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " that means clink , " he yelled . ]
#511 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ his face is wet , he is crying . ]
#569 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ kropp nudges me : " seen the infants ? ]
#949 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ another order : " cigarettes and pipes out . ]
#1005 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ the mud flies high , fragments whizz past . ]
#1033 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ i understand at once : gun - shy . ]
#1079 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ and it is not men , only horses . ]
#1305 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " get drunk , " says albert . ]
#1398 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ kropp is nearest , so he favours him . ]
#1611 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ tjaden wins of course , the lucky wretch . ]
#1613 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " not bad , " i agree . ]
#2255 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " there , see that waggle - top ? ]
#2257 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ keep down , it will go clean over . ]
#2284 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " and gives the order : " number ! ]
#2442 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " no matter , " he says gaily . ]
#2498 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ the steps come nearer , close by us . ]
#2640 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " yes , there ' s not much . ]
#2697 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " twenty paces backwards , double march ! ]
#2789 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ indeed , it was different a year ago . ]
#2865 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ quietly , i go out of the room . ]
#3080 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " good - night , my child . ]
#3272 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " in parts , " i say . ]
#3369 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " not you , nor anybody else here . ]
#3469 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ i listen ; the sound is behind me . ]
#3570 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ it is early morning , clear and grey . ]
#3819 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ however , that difficulty is soon got over . ]
#3866 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ still chewing , we lie down to sleep . ]
#3954 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ quick , i ' ll hold you up . ]
#4024 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ yes , the club chairs with red plush . ]
#4180 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " shut the door , " i snort . ]
#4185 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " she disappears , leaving the door open . ]
#4189 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " " me too , " says another . ]
#4223 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " then of course , we all understand . ]
#4273 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ they are pleasant , but often rather unskilled . ]
#4728 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ kat , that is almost three years ago . ]
#4789 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ " you are not related , are you ? ]
#28 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ and as the fourth , myself , paul baumer . ]
#424 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ " next time , franz , " i say . ]
#701 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ midday heat , barrack square , and drummers beating ! ]
#1089 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ slowly , humbly , it sinks to the ground . ]
#1167 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ it is kat , kropp , and someone else . ]
#1717 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ kat laughs , and simply says : " tjaden . ]
#1914 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ " one minute , lad , " i say . ]
#2281 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ once again : " second company , this way ! ]
#3271 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ " he asks , " pretty good , eh ? ]
#4174 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ " shut the door , will you , sister ? ]
#2541 | T: 7 | I: 4 | [ " good luck , kat : good luck , albert . ]
#4327 | T: 7 | I: 4 | [ hoarse , agitated , he whispers : " stopping here ! ]
#4647 | T: 7 | I: 5 | [ dysentery , influenza , typhus -- scalding , choking , death . ]
#3 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are satisfied and at peace . ]
#17 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the prussian is not so generous . ]
#40 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " but where are the others ? ]
#52 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden seized him by the tunic . ]
#59 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that ' s all for us ! ]
#73 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ let ' s have it then . ]
#82 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he glanced into the dixie . ]
#85 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " cooked with meat and fat . ]
#86 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " the lieutenant looked at us . ]
#87 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he knew what we were thinking . ]
#101 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ to - day is wonderfully good . ]
#131 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ over us is the blue sky . ]
#135 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ around us stretches the flowery meadow . ]
#142 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp has the cards with him . ]
#166 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are mostly confounded little martinets . ]
#184 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he had only been knocked unconscious . ]
#218 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the bed covering arches over it . ]
#225 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ death is working through from within . ]
#230 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ even his voice sounds like ashes . ]
#244 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i see the picture before me . ]
#247 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " kemmerich signs with his hands . ]
#248 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " put them under the bed . ]
#259 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich doesn ' t want to . ]
#260 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are his most prized possessions . ]
#287 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " they would fit me perfectly . ]
#294 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we go back to the huts . ]
#305 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " we are the iron youth . ]
#306 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " we all three smile bitterly . ]
#376 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " and the " lie down ! ]
#395 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " have you lost your senses ? ]
#421 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ around us is a great commotion . ]
#426 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " they have amputated my leg . ]
#427 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he knows it too then . ]
#431 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ wegeler has lost his right arm . ]
#437 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " do you think so ? ]
#450 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ do they look after you properly ? ]
#468 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the skeleton is working itself through . ]
#469 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the eyes are already sunken in . ]
#495 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is no use any more . ]
#516 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the tears run down his cheeks . ]
#578 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " kat gives a knowing whistle . ]
#598 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " then he turns to us . ]
#602 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ every company has one or two . ]
#603 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky is the smartest i know . ]
#607 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ for that he has his qualifications . ]
#613 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ our waterproof sheets are too thin . ]
#616 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " they go off to explore . ]
#621 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " is there a what ? ]
#684 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " the two begin to argue . ]
#693 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then the conversation turns to drill . ]
#696 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the heat hangs over the square . ]
#737 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the things are precisely the same . ]
#744 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then comes the order to sing . ]
#784 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ meanwhile haie sits down beside us . ]
#842 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but we do not expect that . ]
#853 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i suddenly prick up my ears . ]
#873 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ only the young recruits are agitated . ]
#881 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the shelling can be heard distinctly . ]
#885 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " what ' s got them ? ]
#900 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ every time it is the same . ]
#924 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ an indigent looking wood receives us . ]
#944 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the burdens are awkward and heavy . ]
#950 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " we are near the line . ]
#999 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " then it begins in earnest . ]
#1001 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the next lands fair amongst us . ]
#1011 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ shoulders just like kemmerich ' s . ]
#1017 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ cries are heard between the explosions . ]
#1027 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he looks round him dazedly . ]
#1063 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ müller has a pair of glasses . ]
#1071 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kat hits it in the air . ]
#1117 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " yells somebody -- " cover ! ]
#1138 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i feel the arm all over . ]
#1203 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and so we stumble off hastily . ]
#1205 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ coffins and corpses lie strewn about . ]
#1208 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ someone lies in front of us . ]
#1215 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he is too weak to answer . ]
#1216 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we slit open his trousers carefully . ]
#1231 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i now look at him closely . ]
#1244 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he stands still a moment . ]
#1245 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he has made up his mind . ]
#1280 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and they ' re done for . ]
#1291 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he will get some surprises here . ]
#1296 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp and müller are amusing themselves . ]
#1301 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " clear out of this ! ]
#1323 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is too much for haie . ]
#1328 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " -- haie licks his lips . ]
#1341 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " have you ever dug peat ? ]
#1342 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he retorts good - naturedly . ]
#1367 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden thinks of one thing only . ]
#1373 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " asks müller like an inquisitor . ]
#1375 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ detering is sparing with his words . ]
#1376 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but on this subject he speaks . ]
#1385 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden ' s face turns red . ]
#1388 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then he marches up to us . ]
#1403 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden now opens his eyes . ]
#1444 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that doesn ' t worry tjaden . ]
#1449 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden is a cheerful soul . ]
#1452 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ müller hasn ' t finished yet . ]
#1464 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " asked müller suddenly and earnestly . ]
#1474 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " how many inhabitants has melbourne ? ]
#1495 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are surprised at this delicacy . ]
#1507 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i don ' t know . ]
#1528 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are not youth any longer . ]
#1542 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ his boots gleam in the sun . ]
#1563 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ nobody pays any attention to him . ]
#1615 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the ride costs us two cigarettes . ]
#1616 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kat has marked the spot exactly . ]
#1635 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ what a kick a goose has ! ]
#1636 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they struggle and i stagger about . ]
#1644 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it ' s a bull dog . ]
#1668 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kat plucks and cleans the goose . ]
#1675 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ once we hear a stifled cry . ]
#1676 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ a hut must have been hit . ]
#1695 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ are not his twenty summers there ? ]
#1705 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we eat slowly and with gusto . ]
#1712 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there is still a lot left . ]
#1725 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " we go to our hut . ]
#1733 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there are at least a hundred . ]
#1741 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ ahead of us everything is shimmering . ]
#1748 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are now in low spirits . ]
#1765 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ no soldier outlives a thousand chances . ]
#1772 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they seem to be mighty hungry . ]
#1788 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ several times we repeat the process . ]
#1810 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ at night they send over gas . ]
#1834 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ heavy fire is falling on us . ]
#1836 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we distinguish shells of every calibre . ]
#1857 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ a wide belt is being raked . ]
#1890 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ everyone yells and curses and slaughters . ]
#1894 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we lie down to wait again . ]
#1902 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ by midday what i expected happens . ]
#1943 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we have to give it up . ]
#1961 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the charge works its way across . ]
#1984 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the forward trenches have been abandoned . ]
#2029 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we lose touch with the enemy . ]
#2127 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we search in vain until dawn . ]
#2136 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ to - day he merely weeps . ]
#2146 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the gases in them make noises . ]
#2161 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he cannot get over it . ]
#2237 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that is too much for me . ]
#2256 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that ' s a mortar coming . ]
#2259 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you can run from a mortar . ]
#2306 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but now we are almost happy . ]
#2344 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " how old would she be ? ]
#2349 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " it gives us goose flesh . ]
#2368 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it does not distress us exactly . ]
#2374 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ in the evening we go swimming . ]
#2398 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ leer asks if they live there . ]
#2420 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the sky turns apple - green . ]
#2439 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we find the house at once . ]
#2449 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ our boots make a great clatter . ]
#2462 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then we all become rather embarrassed . ]
#2467 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ her fingers close round my face . ]
#2500 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is tjaden in full course . ]
#2537 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ albert and kat come with me . ]
#2540 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we take leave of one another . ]
#2551 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the train stamps and stamps onward . ]
#2559 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ behind it should lie the town . ]
#2581 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the stairs creak under my boots . ]
#2607 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " my mother is very pale . ]
#2641 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ do you get enough out there ? ]
#2644 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " erna takes away the food . ]
#2648 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and you never shall realise it . ]
#2661 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ my mother wants to get up . ]
#2669 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ slowly i wander through the streets . ]
#2674 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " can ' t you salute ? ]
#2684 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ his fat red face is furious . ]
#2686 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i give him full particulars . ]
#2704 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i pretend to be duly grateful . ]
#2708 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that ruins the evening for me . ]
#2740 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but that does not mend matters . ]
#2747 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ naturally it ' s worse here . ]
#2757 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i can well believe it ! ]
#2800 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they talk too much for me . ]
#2834 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i want that quiet rapture again . ]
#2888 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you will hear from me later . ]
#2891 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you will see in a minute . ]
#2969 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the bones have not lasted out . ]
#2998 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he felt absolutely nothing at all . ]
#3009 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i would swear to anything . ]
#3010 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but she seems to believe me . ]
#3095 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i go through the routine mechanically . ]
#3107 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ their colour changes with every minute . ]
#3153 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ how little we understand one another . ]
#3221 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ if only she could sleep properly . ]
#3249 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ nine we travel for several days . ]
#3251 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we roll on past transport lines . ]
#3253 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the light railway picks us up . ]
#3262 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i enquire after kat and albert . ]
#3263 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ no one knows anything of them . ]
#3293 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ in the distance the front thunders . ]
#3294 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the walls of the hut rattle . ]
#3296 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are inspected at every turn . ]
#3317 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden hasn ' t finished yet . ]
#3323 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " but tjaden is quite fascinated . ]
#3343 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then tjaden pretends to be obtuse . ]
#3370 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " who are they then ? ]
#3376 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you look in your school books . ]
#3445 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i try to pull myself together . ]
#3504 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and then it begins in earnest . ]
#3513 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i must pretend to be dead . ]
#3514 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ suddenly i hear the barrage lift . ]
#3536 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ already it has become somewhat lighter . ]
#3559 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ burning i wait for our attack . ]
#3581 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ at last i am beside him . ]
#3597 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ my water bottle is not there . ]
#3612 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that is all i can do . ]
#3628 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but only for a short time . ]
#3642 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ what would his wife look like ? ]
#3644 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ does she belong to me now ? ]
#3654 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it was that abstraction i stabbed . ]
#3658 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we always see it too late . ]
#3667 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but i hesitate to open it . ]
#3674 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ some pictures and letters drop out . ]
#3681 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ my brain is taxed beyond endurance . ]
#3693 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the name troubles me no more . ]
#3722 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i have forgotten the dead man . ]
#3742 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i must tell kat and albert . ]
#3743 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they both try to calm me . ]
#3745 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ what else could you have done ? ]
#3781 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ now we develop an immense industry . ]
#3788 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but it does not stay long . ]
#3809 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ this will make a grand feed . ]
#3826 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the sucking pigs are roasted whole . ]
#3868 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we have eaten too much fat . ]
#3875 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ shells lumber across and crash down . ]
#3876 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ munition columns tear along the street . ]
#3881 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ so we go differently about it . ]
#3903 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are stacked high with planks . ]
#3940 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " where has it got you ? ]
#3942 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " in the knee i think . ]
#3963 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i can still crawl a little . ]
#4010 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ seven fellows died in our ward . ]
#4014 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ our stretchers stand on the platform . ]
#4018 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we have waited already two hours . ]
#4051 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i feel like a pig . ]
#4071 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he goes off with the cigars . ]
#4073 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i wake up during the night . ]
#4093 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " have you been dreaming then ? ]
#4095 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " perhaps -- " i evade . ]
#4110 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " she says turning to me . ]
#4126 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the third night we reach herbesthal . ]
#4133 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ my face swells and turns red . ]
#4142 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then i give it a shake . ]
#4143 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i send it up to 100 . ]
#4159 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ toward morning we doze a little . ]
#4186 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the intoning of the litany proceeds . ]
#4192 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it smashes into a thousand pieces . ]
#4213 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he talks like a book . ]
#4221 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " that doesn ' t matter . ]
#4227 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ no one dares to annoy me . ]
#4228 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and nobody does anything to me . ]
#4241 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the night sister does not come . ]
#4253 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " the bandage is wet . ]
#4255 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " that cannot be done either . ]
#4258 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ perhaps the sister has fallen asleep . ]
#4261 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " should we smash a bottle ? ]
#4264 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " at last the door opens . ]
#4279 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and there are others like her . ]
#4292 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there are two beds in it . ]
#4299 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " " but what about him ? ]
#4307 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we see many come and go . ]
#4321 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i ' m stopping here ! ]
#4326 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " he can speak no more . ]
#4331 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i will come back again ! ]
#4372 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is going badly with albert . ]
#4378 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ our room gets two blind men . ]
#4395 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we have long supposed him dead . ]
#4483 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the arm has healed long since . ]
#4484 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ new convoys arrive from the line . ]
#4488 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ albert ' s stump heals well . ]
#4504 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ now the trees are green again . ]
#4509 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ fields of craters within and without . ]
#4617 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but we are emaciated and starved . ]
#4680 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ not now at the last moment ! ]
#4682 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ why do they make an end ? ]
#4707 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he suffers acutely on the way . ]
#4737 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it may get all right again . ]
#4751 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ my legs and my hands tremble . ]
#4757 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i look at him without comprehending . ]
#4760 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i do not understand him . ]
#4770 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ " i know better than that . ]
#4777 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i feel my fingers become moist . ]
#4801 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ everyone talks of peace and armistice . ]
#221 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ he looks ghastly , yellow and wan . ]
#268 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ müller talks of doing so , too . ]
#433 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ besides , you will be going home . ]
#447 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " look here though , these fingers . ]
#847 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ that does not worry us , however . ]
#972 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ he hesitates , is blinded and falls . ]
#1039 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " what ' s up , albert ? ]
#1044 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " wounded horses , " says kat . ]
#1058 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ shoot them , can ' t you ? ]
#1104 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " what ' s up , kat ? ]
#1165 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ someone plumps down behind me , another . ]
#1359 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ here a dram , there a pint . ]
#1365 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " what would you do , tjaden ! ]
#1421 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " himmelstoss lets fly too , now . ]
#1442 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " sure to , " i say . ]
#1541 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss follows him , thirsting for vengeance . ]
#1706 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " how does it taste , kat ? ]
#1714 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " " sure , " says he . ]
#1960 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ machine - guns rattle , rifles crack . ]
#2585 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ yes , it is my eldest sister . ]
#2606 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " no , i have got leave . ]
#2610 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " " are you sick , mother ? ]
#2691 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " he asks , a bit stupefied . ]
#2696 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ thank god , we have discipline here ! ]
#2728 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ this is good , i like it . ]
#2936 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " kantorek and boettcher , bread fatigue ! ]
#3006 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " yes , he died at once . ]
#3316 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " " sure , " says kat . ]
#3361 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ no , it is merely the rulers . ]
#3631 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ it is mad , what i do . ]
#3770 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " after all , war is war . ]
#4092 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " " no , " i agree . ]
#4184 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " " shut the door , anyway . ]
#4246 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ then franz says : " ring again . ]
#4768 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " fainted , " i say quickly . ]
#4790 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ " no , we are not related . ]
#2145 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ they hiss , belch , and make movements . ]
#2746 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ you look well , paul , and fit . ]
#3062 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ " " yes , yes , my child . ]
#3588 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ " no , no , " i whisper . ]
#55 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ tjaden ' s chaps quivered . ]
#74 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are the second company . ]
#83 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " the beans look good . ]
#91 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ serve out all the rations . ]
#92 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we can do with them . ]
#97 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " " you be hanged ! ]
#157 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp pulls out a letter . ]
#214 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich ' s head sinks . ]
#283 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp goes in with him . ]
#291 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " do you think -- ? ]
#326 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and of this nothing remains . ]
#328 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and so it would seem . ]
#330 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the war swept us away . ]
#337 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he merely sees things clearly . ]
#347 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and good boots are scarce . ]
#365 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ 9 platoon under corporal himmelstoss . ]
#391 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but kropp had had enough . ]
#432 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that ' s much worse . ]
#434 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " he looks at me . ]
#435 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " do you think so ? ]
#446 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " he lifts one hand . ]
#454 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ eating is the main thing . ]
#472 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i have copied his essays . ]
#476 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kantorek was proud of him . ]
#479 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i glance at my boots . ]
#488 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " my thoughts become confused . ]
#493 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i draw near to him . ]
#496 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ no one can console him . ]
#497 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i am wretched with helplessness . ]
#514 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " will you sleep now ? ]
#515 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " he does not answer . ]
#560 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i give him the boots . ]
#579 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " bread made of turnips ? ]
#637 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " go ahead and explore . ]
#651 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " kat gives no explanation . ]
#656 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he has thought of everything . ]
#659 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we climb out of bed . ]
#694 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ a picture comes before me . ]
#714 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " we indulge in reminiscences . ]
#717 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ lohne is a railway junction . ]
#807 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ his belt - buckle gleamed . ]
#816 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ immediately his voice was muffled . ]
#828 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we disappeared at full speed . ]
#889 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " kat shrugs his shoulders . ]
#931 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ along the road troops file . ]
#934 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ farther on the mist ends . ]
#945 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the ground becomes more broken . ]
#982 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ once i fall fast asleep . ]
#994 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " one lands behind us . ]
#995 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ some recruits jump up terrified . ]
#997 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kat knocks out his pipe . ]
#1018 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ at last it grows quiet . ]
#1050 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ for god ' s sake ! ]
#1053 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it gets under his skin . ]
#1065 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ those are the wounded horses . ]
#1066 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but not all of them . ]
#1072 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " are you mad -- ? ]
#1076 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we can bear almost anything . ]
#1081 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then single shots crack out . ]
#1099 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the sky is become brighter . ]
#1120 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ not a moment too soon . ]
#1125 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ there is no escape anywhere . ]
#1131 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the earth bursts before us . ]
#1139 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is grazed but sound . ]
#1192 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i feel i am suffocating . ]
#1201 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they take off their masks . ]
#1220 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we lay the hip bare . ]
#1222 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the joint has been hit . ]
#1230 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but he is wearing none . ]
#1326 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ you ' ve said it . ]
#1333 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the picture is too good . ]
#1406 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden lifts his head . ]
#1415 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " himmelstoss begins to boil . ]
#1424 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden waves him off . ]
#1447 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " urges the thoroughgoing müller . ]
#1469 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " kropp wants to know . ]
#1477 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " i ask albert hotly . ]
#1486 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " " that needs preparation . ]
#1496 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but it is merely pensiveness . ]
#1500 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but we never had any . ]
#1510 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " what could we do ? ]
#1544 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " where ' s tjaden ? ]
#1547 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss glowers at us wrathfully . ]
#1548 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " you know very well . ]
#1570 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " i expect an answer . ]
#1573 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ those are anti - aircraft . ]
#1574 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we were over there yesterday . ]
#1575 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ five dead and eight wounded . ]
#1578 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ please may i hop it ? ]
#1585 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but that is the end . ]
#1602 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he is a decent fellow . ]
#1603 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ open arrest is quite pleasant . ]
#1624 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then i recognise the shed . ]
#1626 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i distinguish two white patches . ]
#1658 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ quickly i let myself drop . ]
#1819 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it almost looks like it . ]
#1828 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ perhaps we will be lucky . ]
#1851 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the recruits are eyeing him . ]
#1854 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the bombardment does not diminish . ]
#1861 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we cannot make ourselves understood . ]
#1862 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ our trench is almost gone . ]
#1865 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ at once it is dark . ]
#1889 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ torches light up the confusion . ]
#1893 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the onslaught has exhausted us . ]
#1921 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he is not the first . ]
#1950 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ suddenly the nearer explosions cease . ]
#1957 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ yet they offer some obstacle . ]
#1977 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we have become wild beasts . ]
#1994 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the lines behind us stop . ]
#1995 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they can advance no farther . ]
#2032 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we get back pretty well . ]
#2039 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we bagged five tins altogether . ]
#2143 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the shells will bury them . ]
#2167 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the others send them home . ]
#2242 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ a lieutenant is with them . ]
#2250 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ how long has it been ? ]
#2251 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ weeks -- months -- years ? ]
#2271 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we have just been relieved . ]
#2323 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but we do not forget . ]
#2355 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is hopeless to compete . ]
#2357 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that is something toward it . ]
#2377 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ leer calls out to them . ]
#2387 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that produces a great effect . ]
#2414 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are full of excitement . ]
#2430 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that makes a decent present . ]
#2440 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it lies among the trees . ]
#2456 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ how supple their movements are . ]
#2458 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then we are allowed in . ]
#2471 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ there are other rooms adjoining . ]
#2489 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ leer is in high spirits . ]
#2510 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ bertinck points to my pass . ]
#2598 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it comes from the bedroom . ]
#2599 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " is she in bed ? ]
#2600 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " i ask my sister . ]
#2621 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ what ought i to say ? ]
#2670 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ occasionally someone speaks to me . ]
#2682 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " what is your name ? ]
#2688 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " where are you quartered ? ]
#2699 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i am mad with rage . ]
#2717 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is a strange sight . ]
#2786 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " all of the best ! ]
#2796 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they plume themselves on it . ]
#2809 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i sit down on it . ]
#2909 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and he is a model ! ]
#2937 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ take the handcart with you . ]
#2945 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " " he did try . ]
#2961 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is one day less . ]
#2975 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i cannot write that down . ]
#2978 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ did you see him then ? ]
#2990 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i cannot bear the uncertainty . ]
#2999 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ his face was quite calm . ]
#3011 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ she moans and weeps steadily . ]
#3045 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ what poor wretches we are ! ]
#3056 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " she does not reply . ]
#3069 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they will keep you warm . ]
#3081 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " the room is dark . ]
#3085 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i bite into my pillow . ]
#3152 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they rarely give anything away . ]
#3178 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ this way lies the abyss . ]
#3189 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the burial is quickly over . ]
#3205 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ where else could we go ? ]
#3211 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " where is she then ? ]
#3219 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and besides it is cheaper . ]
#3226 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " have you not asked ? ]
#3254 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i search for my regiment . ]
#3286 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " i could almost weep . ]
#3289 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ this is where i belong . ]
#3306 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ at last the moment arrives . ]
#3345 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i don ' t follow . ]
#3385 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they are the real culprits . ]
#3406 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " what can that mean ? ]
#3432 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ from here i peer forward . ]
#3471 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ now i hear muffled voices . ]
#3508 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ apparently an attack is coming . ]
#3509 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ everywhere the rockets shoot up . ]
#3522 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ now our batteries are firing . ]
#3523 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ a shell lands near me . ]
#3528 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the machine - guns rattle . ]
#3549 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i can see him indistinctly . ]
#3561 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ minute after minute trickles away . ]
#3567 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the fire does not diminish . ]
#3572 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the figure opposite me moves . ]
#3582 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then he opens his eyes . ]
#3632 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but i must do something . ]
#3650 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i talk and must talk . ]
#3677 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ along with them are letters . ]
#3699 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it shall never happen again . ]
#3735 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ müller gives me a cigarette . ]
#3762 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we look at one another . ]
#3815 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the sucking pigs are slaughtered . ]
#3867 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but the night is bad . ]
#3892 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and kat is most cheerful . ]
#3901 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the palmy days are over . ]
#3930 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he staggers up and runs . ]
#3943 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " " can you run ? ]
#3965 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is full of wounded . ]
#3972 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the bandages burn like fire . ]
#3977 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ actually it is perhaps one . ]
#4015 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we wait for the train . ]
#4038 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp is stowed in below . ]
#4048 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " asks the sister gently . ]
#4052 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ must i get in there ? ]
#4054 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " a little bit dirty ? ]
#4063 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " what is it then ? ]
#4086 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " have you bumped yourself ? ]
#4099 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that will be all right . ]
#4103 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he calls to the sister . ]
#4109 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ what do you want then ? ]
#4112 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ she comes to my help . ]
#4124 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we sleep through the days . ]
#4135 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " are you in pain ? ]
#4145 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but that is not enough . ]
#4157 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the night is very disturbed . ]
#4162 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the others wake up too . ]
#4164 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they call it morning devotion . ]
#4190 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i count up to five . ]
#4204 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ so we let him talk . ]
#4214 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " what is your name ? ]
#4222 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i have a shooting licence . ]
#4234 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the bandages are stuck fast . ]
#4267 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " " we did ring . ]
#4271 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ now a sister comes oftener . ]
#4275 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the nuns are more reliable . ]
#4300 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " josef shrugs his shoulders . ]
#4306 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ josef makes a significant glance . ]
#4317 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " to the bandaging ward . ]
#4318 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " he is lifted out . ]
#4322 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " they push him back . ]
#4332 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i will come back again ! ]
#4351 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " asks one of them . ]
#4369 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ what else could they do ? ]
#4407 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ two fellows die of tetanus . ]
#4460 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he comes back and nods . ]
#4489 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the wound is almost closed . ]
#4531 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ those are the dangerous moments . ]
#4557 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it is just the time . ]
#4597 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we try to prevent him . ]
#4612 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ our lines are falling back . ]
#4621 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we have too few horses . ]
#4628 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we never think so far . ]
#4635 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we need soldiers up there . ]
#4656 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we open fire on them . ]
#4664 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ bertinck has a chest wound . ]
#4708 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we do not speak much . ]
#4716 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the going is more difficult . ]
#4717 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ often a shell whistles across . ]
#4736 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the joint is quite sound . ]
#4759 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ " he is stone dead . ]
#4797 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then i know nothing more . ]
#4807 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then we will go home . ]
#212 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " how goes it , franz ? ]
#397 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ what will you do , anyway ? ]
#453 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " franz , you must eat . ]
#557 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ the night lives , i live . ]
#595 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ cold beans taste fine , too . ]
#690 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ whoever survives , his country wins . ]
#712 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ by the right , quick march . ]
#960 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " bombardment , " says kat . ]
#1372 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " " and you , detering ! ]
#1399 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " well , you here too ? ]
#1546 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ no one knows , of course . ]
#1634 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ i fight desperately , but lord ! ]
#2003 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ oh , this turning back again ! ]
#2363 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " yes , socks too perhaps . ]
#2649 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ was it bad , you ask . ]
#3046 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " yes mother , i will . ]
#3079 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ " good - night , mother . ]
#3613 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ now we must wait , wait . ]
#3807 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ yes , they are still there . ]
#4265 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ the old lady appears , mumbling . ]
#4791 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ no , we are not related . ]
#4355 | T: 5 | I: 3 | [ no , well , there you are ! ]
#54 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " ginger nodded again . ]
#98 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " spat out ginger . ]
#107 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we want something better . ]
#178 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it made them stupid . ]
#206 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we ask for kemmerich . ]
#220 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the leg is amputated . ]
#249 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " müller does so . ]
#278 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i ask him . ]
#303 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " müller asks him . ]
#314 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ that is long ago . ]
#315 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we are old folk . ]
#348 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ once it was different . ]
#420 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he is sinking steadily . ]
#429 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he is silent . ]
#436 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " " of course . ]
#455 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ that looks good too . ]
#456 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he turns away . ]
#487 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ let him not die ! ]
#492 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the mouth moves slightly . ]
#527 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ where is the doctor ? ]
#565 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ three reinforcements have arrived . ]
#585 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we follow curiously . ]
#590 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we are surprised . ]
#592 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i ask him . ]
#611 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ wire netting is hard . ]
#635 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he strolls off . ]
#636 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the artilleryman grins scornfully . ]
#649 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he feels the bread . ]
#663 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he goes off cursing . ]
#676 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat sits beside me . ]
#677 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he likes to talk . ]
#692 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the subject is dropped . ]
#697 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the barracks are deserted . ]
#750 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ and nobody blames him . ]
#764 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " no one protests . ]
#808 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he came on unsuspectingly . ]
#860 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i have their number . ]
#869 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ our faces change imperceptibly . ]
#871 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it is not fear . ]
#878 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we all listen . ]
#879 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the front is restless . ]
#918 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ one cannot explain it . ]
#927 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the lorries turn back . ]
#930 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the moon is shining . ]
#936 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ they become a column . ]
#1002 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ two fellows cry out . ]
#1010 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the little shoulders heave . ]
#1012 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i let him be . ]
#1020 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we risk a look . ]
#1030 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ gradually he comes to . ]
#1042 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " the cries continued . ]
#1045 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it ' s unendurable . ]
#1091 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the cries are silenced . ]
#1097 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we go back . ]
#1109 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he is nervous . ]
#1121 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the dark goes mad . ]
#1122 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it heaves and raves . ]
#1133 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i feel a smack . ]
#1135 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i shut my fist . ]
#1187 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it has grown lighter . ]
#1214 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " his eyes move . ]
#1225 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ his eyes move again . ]
#1248 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we get a stretcher . ]
#1249 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat shakes his head . ]
#1257 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the morning is cloudy . ]
#1259 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it begins to rain . ]
#1262 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the rain becomes heavier . ]
#1272 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ an explosion sounds somewhere . ]
#1286 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the rumour has materialised . ]
#1290 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ that cooked his goose . ]
#1307 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " kat becomes interested . ]
#1310 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " my old woman ! ]
#1332 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " everyone is silent . ]
#1343 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " you try it . ]
#1404 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i do though . ]
#1408 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " himmelstoss is disconcerted . ]
#1453 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he tackles kropp again . ]
#1466 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i interrupt gently . ]
#1506 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp gives a shrug . ]
#1520 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp feels it too . ]
#1527 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he is right . ]
#1531 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we fly from ourselves . ]
#1545 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " the sergeant puffs . ]
#1552 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he tries another way . ]
#1564 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he asks for tjaden . ]
#1565 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we shrug our shoulders . ]
#1581 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " three days c . ]
#1591 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " is that right ? ]
#1592 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " bertink asks himmelstoss . ]
#1609 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden greets us crowing . ]
#1620 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat hoists me up . ]
#1622 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat keeps watch below . ]
#1629 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i make a jump . ]
#1667 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we kindle a fire . ]
#1686 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ so we take turns . ]
#1701 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i stir myself . ]
#1756 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ over us chance hovers . ]
#1786 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the result is good . ]
#1790 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ they return no more . ]
#1820 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ day after day passes . ]
#1835 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we crouch into corners . ]
#1843 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ they are too inexperienced . ]
#1859 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we are gradually benumbed . ]
#1860 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ hardly a man speaks . ]
#1882 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the night is unbearable . ]
#1901 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we wait and wait . ]
#1930 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ sulphur fumes pour in . ]
#1954 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the attack has come . ]
#1959 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ our artillery opens fire . ]
#1985 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ are they still trenches ? ]
#1989 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it is nearly noon . ]
#2046 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we pass them round . ]
#2047 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the evening benediction begins . ]
#2058 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ no one is there . ]
#2123 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he grows gradually hoarser . ]
#2226 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ his face looks sullen . ]
#2290 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ thirty - two men . ]
#2310 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we forget nothing really . ]
#2361 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i go even farther . ]
#2385 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden is more crafty . ]
#2396 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we accompany them swimming . ]
#2412 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ then we swim back . ]
#2443 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the windows are shuttered . ]
#2445 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ then we grow impatient . ]
#2501 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he has disappeared already . ]
#2513 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the others envy me . ]
#2556 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the plain unfolds itself . ]
#2562 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ a street - crossing . ]
#2613 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " she asks me . ]
#2618 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ she looks at me . ]
#2683 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i give it . ]
#2693 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ but not at all . ]
#2727 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ margaret ' s church . ]
#2731 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ not so my father . ]
#2781 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ and then to paris . ]
#2783 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ immediately he orders another . ]
#2784 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ but i break away . ]
#2837 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i sit and wait . ]
#2859 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i stand there dumb . ]
#2860 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ as before a judge . ]
#2966 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ many of them faint . ]
#2967 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we have no luck . ]
#2973 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ four days left now . ]
#2979 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ how did he die ? ]
#2986 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he died at once . ]
#2988 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ you must tell me . ]
#3000 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " she is silent . ]
#3031 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " she is silent . ]
#3033 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " " no mother . ]
#3035 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ they are no good . ]
#3068 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ they are all wool . ]
#3185 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the days go by . ]
#3191 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the stars are cold . ]
#3214 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " in which class ? ]
#3222 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " my father nods . ]
#3302 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ hence all the inspections . ]
#3311 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ then we march off . ]
#3312 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ afterwards we discuss it . ]
#3366 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat shrugs his shoulders . ]
#3386 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " müller gets up . ]
#3412 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i search around . ]
#3413 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ and so it is . ]
#3449 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it is in vain . ]
#3503 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ almost immediately two others . ]
#3506 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ machine - guns rattle . ]
#3530 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the rifle fire increases . ]
#3537 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ steps hasten over me . ]
#3589 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the eyes follow me . ]
#3596 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the lips are dry . ]
#3601 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he gulps it down . ]
#3602 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i fetch some more . ]
#3610 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ there are three stabs . ]
#3617 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ stab him i cannot . ]
#3627 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i breathe freely again . ]
#3634 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i close his eyes . ]
#3664 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i cannot get out . ]
#3692 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ my fear was groundless . ]
#3716 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the front remains quiet . ]
#3732 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " are you wounded ? ]
#3816 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat sees to them . ]
#3838 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the roast is ready . ]
#3846 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we see them disappear . ]
#3856 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it lasts till six . ]
#3887 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ no one disturbs us . ]
#3897 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " -- " what ? ]
#3931 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i keep beside him . ]
#3941 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i ask him . ]
#3946 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the shelling follows us . ]
#3950 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ albert begins to drag . ]
#3971 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " the pain increases . ]
#3984 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i think of kemmerich . ]
#3986 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ it is all right . ]
#3990 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the pain is insufferable . ]
#3993 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ then i become quiet . ]
#4017 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ our blankets are thin . ]
#4026 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ one cigarette per hour . ]
#4029 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we grow melancholy . ]
#4032 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ what damned hard luck ! ]
#4041 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i exclaim suddenly . ]
#4042 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " what is it ? ]
#4043 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " asks the sister . ]
#4050 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " " what for ? ]
#4055 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " she suggests helpfully . ]
#4070 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant - major . ]
#4074 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp is restless too . ]
#4096 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the interrogation starts again . ]
#4113 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " little or big ? ]
#4116 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i get a bottle . ]
#4118 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the train travels slowly . ]
#4158 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ no one can sleep . ]
#4167 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " such an absurdity ! ]
#4179 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " albert groans again . ]
#4181 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ she is quite disconcerted . ]
#4182 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ apparently she cannot understand . ]
#4195 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " shut the door ! ]
#4216 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " the inspector departs . ]
#4217 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we are all curious . ]
#4231 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " we are overjoyed . ]
#4235 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we bellow like steers . ]
#4247 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i do so . ]
#4377 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ a new convoy arrives . ]
#4388 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ again beds are empty . ]
#4427 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ what will happen afterwards ? ]
#4476 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the business is over . ]
#4495 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i get convalescent leave . ]
#4565 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ so i stayed awake . ]
#4615 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ too many new guns . ]
#4632 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the man is al . ]
#4669 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the months pass by . ]
#4691 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we never get dry . ]
#4698 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we two are alone . ]
#4713 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " " then come . ]
#4722 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we smoke a cigarette . ]
#4734 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " he asks bitterly . ]
#4758 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he points to kat . ]
#4762 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the orderly stands still . ]
#4763 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " that as well . ]
#4764 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ " i turn round . ]
#4769 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the orderly whistles softly . ]
#4782 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ but it has sufficed . ]
#4784 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ slowly i get up . ]
#4788 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the orderly is mystified . ]
#4793 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ have i feet still ? ]
#4795 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ all is as usual . ]
#4798 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ twelve it is autumn . ]
#4820 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i am very quiet . ]
#57 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " " yes , everything . ]
#510 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ he still breathes , lightly . ]
#627 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " yes , a few . ]
#632 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " where to , kat ? ]
#1025 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " all over , kid ! ]
#1700 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " " yes , kat . ]
#1709 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " " good , kat . ]
#3698 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ i promise you , comrade . ]
#3777 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ haie is dead , though . ]
#4345 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ enter them down , sister . ]
#4712 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ " " must , paul . ]
#3043 | T: 4 | I: 3 | [ " ah , mother , mother ! ]
#3928 | T: 4 | I: 3 | [ " quick , up , albert ! ]
#44 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he was staggered . ]
#53 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " and sausage ? ]
#56 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " tobacco too ? ]
#64 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " demanded katczinsky . ]
#68 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky got angry . ]
#84 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " ginger nodded . ]
#159 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " we laugh . ]
#213 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kropp . ]
#240 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " kemmerich nods . ]
#258 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " müller repeats . ]
#271 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is feverish . ]
#276 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he takes it . ]
#279 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is annoyed . ]
#285 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we wait outside . ]
#292 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he asks . ]
#296 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i am freezing . ]
#394 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " bawled himmelstoss . ]
#438 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he repeats . ]
#452 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i get excited . ]
#490 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it grows dark . ]
#518 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ an hour passes . ]
#538 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is dead . ]
#542 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i nod . ]
#562 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ they fit well . ]
#570 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i nod . ]
#572 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky joins us . ]
#622 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he laughs . ]
#626 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he spits . ]
#633 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#660 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the artilleryman hesitates . ]
#668 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ that is kat . ]
#698 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ every thing sleeps . ]
#700 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ what a concord ! ]
#802 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " alone ? ]
#803 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " whispered kropp . ]
#810 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the singing stopped . ]
#824 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss toppled over . ]
#838 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we climb in . ]
#854 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ am i deceived ? ]
#858 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he nods . ]
#1040 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#1047 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are pale . ]
#1048 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ detering stands up . ]
#1059 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ damn you again ! ]
#1105 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " says kropp . ]
#1132 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it rains clods . ]
#1149 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ a wounded man ? ]
#1254 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we go back . ]
#1287 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss has come . ]
#1302 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " growls kropp . ]
#1303 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " of course . ]
#1304 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ and then what ? ]
#1314 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " we laugh . ]
#1325 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " exactly . ]
#1334 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ our flesh creeps . ]
#1336 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " a pause . ]
#1340 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i say . ]
#1366 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kropp . ]
#1379 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is worried . ]
#1430 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks tjaden . ]
#1441 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks tjaden . ]
#1457 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ that makes twelve . ]
#1475 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks müller . ]
#1511 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#1530 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are fleeing . ]
#1532 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ from our life . ]
#1543 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we get up . ]
#1550 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ out with it ! ]
#1595 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks bertink . ]
#1707 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " good ! ]
#1833 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the earth booms . ]
#1845 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ morning is come . ]
#1871 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ that sounds reassuring . ]
#1875 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ but it miscarries . ]
#1936 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i scramble back . ]
#2028 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the fight ceases . ]
#2052 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it is chilly . ]
#2229 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " get out ! ]
#2230 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i spit . ]
#2233 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i repeat . ]
#2321 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ life is short . ]
#2345 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " kropp asks . ]
#2351 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he nods . ]
#2402 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ to - night . ]
#2543 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ their figures dwindle . ]
#2545 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ then they disappear . ]
#2611 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#2639 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i enquire . ]
#2664 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#2675 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he blusters . ]
#2678 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he roars . ]
#2685 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " what regiment ? ]
#2690 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " eh ? ]
#2698 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he commands . ]
#2706 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he says . ]
#2711 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i feel awkward . ]
#2720 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ but i refuse . ]
#2756 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he laughs uproariously . ]
#2759 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ do you smoke ? ]
#2955 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#2957 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ what is leave ? ]
#2982 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i know better . ]
#3002 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " yes . ]
#3017 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ everyone is silent . ]
#3027 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i sit up . ]
#3212 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#3215 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " third . ]
#3233 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#3237 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i know . ]
#3284 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i nod . ]
#3291 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " to russia ? ]
#3329 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden disappears . ]
#3340 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden reappears . ]
#3344 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " a country ? ]
#3365 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks tjaden . ]
#3371 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " persists tjaden . ]
#3407 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#3496 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ these damned rockets ! ]
#3502 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ a shell crashes . ]
#3544 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the man gurgles . ]
#3558 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the light increases . ]
#3694 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the madness passes . ]
#3703 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the twilight comes . ]
#3705 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ one hour more . ]
#3707 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ one hour more . ]
#3715 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the first star . ]
#3719 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the darkness grows . ]
#3725 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i come nearer . ]
#3729 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ then i call . ]
#3758 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kat . ]
#3847 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the next shot . ]
#3975 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kropp . ]
#4040 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " good god ! ]
#4078 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i whisper . ]
#4085 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i say . ]
#4087 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kropp . ]
#4094 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " she asks . ]
#4104 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ she turns round . ]
#4107 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " ah ! ]
#4114 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " shocking business ! ]
#4120 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it halts often . ]
#4121 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ albert is feverish . ]
#4129 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#4130 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " to cologne . ]
#4144 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ 2 â ° . ]
#4147 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ 6 â ° . ]
#4175 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " says someone . ]
#4193 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the praying stops . ]
#4196 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " we yell . ]
#4200 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we have won . ]
#4206 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he asks . ]
#4211 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " " yes . ]
#4220 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he grins . ]
#4240 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i ring loudly . ]
#4251 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " i ask . ]
#4288 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks kropp . ]
#4315 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " where to ? ]
#4316 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he asks . ]
#4333 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he cries . ]
#4334 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the door shuts . ]
#4341 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it is damnable . ]
#4352 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " say no . ]
#4471 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ all goes well . ]
#4497 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ she is feeble . ]
#4582 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are surrounded . ]
#4593 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " asks berger . ]
#4605 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ müller is dead . ]
#4616 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ too many aeroplanes . ]
#4706 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ twice we rest . ]
#4727 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i cried then . ]
#4729 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ " he nods . ]
#4767 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he lies still . ]
#4771 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is dead . ]
#4775 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he has fainted . ]
#4783 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ kat is dead . ]
#4792 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ do i walk ? ]
#4810 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ but no aims . ]
#4819 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i stand up . ]
#47 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ come on , begin ! ]
#266 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ " cheerio , franz . ]
#439 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ " sure , franz . ]
#1583 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ , " conjectures kat . ]
#2451 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ " ssh , ssh ! ]
#2705 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ " now , dismiss ! ]
#2760 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ here , try one . ]
#2887 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ and now : dismiss . ]
#3657 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ forgive me , comrade . ]
#2743 | T: 3 | I: 3 | [ terrible , terrible , eh ? ]
#270 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich groans . ]
#273 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he refuses . ]
#304 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he laughs . ]
#309 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ iron youth . ]
#312 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ but young ? ]
#576 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he grimaces . ]
#582 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ have some ? ]
#597 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ get me ? ]
#763 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ simply amazing ! ]
#804 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " alone . ]
#910 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ -- earth ! ]
#911 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ -- earth ! ]
#1049 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " god ! ]
#1051 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ shoot them . ]
#1083 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ at last ! ]
#1136 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ no pain . ]
#1217 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he groans . ]
#1329 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " sure . ]
#1499 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss too . ]
#1558 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he disappears . ]
#1641 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ a dog . ]
#1647 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i consider . ]
#1674 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ aeroplane bombs . ]
#1708 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ and yours ? ]
#1915 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ kat notices . ]
#1945 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ night again . ]
#1997 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we watch . ]
#2232 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " out ! ]
#2236 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he barks . ]
#2252 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ only days . ]
#2401 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ at night . ]
#2404 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ they understand . ]
#2502 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we laugh . ]
#2946 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ our c . ]
#3036 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " ah ! ]
#3048 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " ah ! ]
#3071 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " ah ! ]
#3117 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ bernard dogs . ]
#3505 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ a bombardment . ]
#3538 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ the first . ]
#3697 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ life also . ]
#3759 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i nod . ]
#3802 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ two holes . ]
#3896 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " tjaden ! ]
#3916 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we sing . ]
#4065 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ she laughs . ]
#4077 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " albert ! ]
#4084 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " damn ! ]
#4134 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ she stops . ]
#4170 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ albert groans . ]
#4197 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ they withdraw . ]
#4210 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " you ? ]
#4245 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we wait . ]
#4485 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ the bandages . ]
#4592 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ " where ? ]
#4623 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ by thousands . ]
#4679 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ not now ! ]
#4802 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ all wait . ]
#2753 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ excellent , eh ? ]
#3037 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ mother , mother ! ]
#3049 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ mother , mother ! ]
#3075 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ mother , mother ! ]
#3252 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ guns , guns . ]
#3540 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ again , another . ]
#72 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ good . ]
#310 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ youth ! ]
#313 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ youth ? ]
#909 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ earth ! ]
#1004 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ barrage . ]
#1279 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ crack ! ]
#1582 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ b . ]
#2748 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ naturally . ]
#2754 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ excellent ? ]
#2861 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ dejected . ]
#2864 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ nevermore . ]
#2947 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ o . ]
#3072 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ mother ! ]
#3074 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ ah ! ]
#3510 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ unceasing . ]
#3539 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ gone . ]
#3683 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ impossible . ]
#4633 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ dismiss ! ]
#4678 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ no ! ]
#2881 | T: 0 | I: 1 | [ ? ]
