Total sentences count: 1913
#31 | T: 106 | I: 20 | [ 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 . ]
#1162 | T: 101 | I: 15 | [ 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 . ]
#908 | T: 76 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#902 | T: 67 | I: 7 | [ 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 . ]
#1691 | T: 66 | 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 . ]
#26 | T: 61 | 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 . ]
#820 | T: 58 | I: 7 | [ 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 . ]
#1363 | T: 58 | I: 7 | [ 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 . ]
#358 | T: 57 | 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 . ]
#1807 | T: 55 | 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 . ]
#1515 | T: 55 | I: 8 | [ 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 . ]
#371 | T: 54 | 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 . ]
#524 | T: 52 | 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 . ]
#1481 | T: 51 | 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 . ]
#1199 | T: 49 | 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 . ]
#380 | T: 48 | 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 . ]
#372 | T: 48 | 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 . ]
#1682 | T: 47 | I: 4 | [ 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1271 | T: 46 | 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 . ]
#919 | T: 45 | 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 . ]
#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 ! ]
#1352 | T: 45 | 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 . ]
#1726 | T: 45 | 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 . ]
#1234 | T: 44 | I: 3 | [ 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#174 | T: 42 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1850 | T: 41 | 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 . ]
#323 | T: 41 | 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 . ]
#120 | T: 39 | 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 . ]
#1184 | T: 39 | 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 . ]
#22 | T: 38 | I: 1 | [ 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 . ]
#686 | T: 37 | I: 2 | [ 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 . ]
#812 | T: 37 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#418 | T: 37 | 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 . ]
#1308 | T: 37 | I: 5 | [ 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1808 | T: 36 | 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 . ]
#382 | T: 36 | 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 . ]
#899 | T: 36 | 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 . ]
#946 | T: 36 | I: 4 | [ 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 . ]
#245 | T: 36 | 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 . ]
#531 | T: 36 | I: 5 | [ 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 . ]
#385 | T: 35 | 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 . ]
#809 | T: 35 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1795 | T: 35 | 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 . ]
#1087 | T: 35 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#760 | T: 34 | 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 . ]
#21 | T: 34 | 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 . ]
#257 | T: 34 | 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 ? ]
#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 . ]
#787 | T: 34 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#985 | T: 33 | 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 ? ]
#1330 | T: 33 | 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 . ]
#1684 | T: 32 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#653 | T: 32 | 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 . ]
#1503 | T: 32 | 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 . ]
#1236 | T: 31 | I: 1 | [ 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 ? ]
#753 | T: 31 | I: 2 | [ 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 ? ]
#1284 | T: 31 | 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 . ]
#349 | T: 31 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#793 | T: 31 | 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 . ]
#735 | T: 31 | 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 . ]
#190 | T: 31 | 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 . ]
#316 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#336 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#833 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#1351 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#913 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#870 | T: 30 | I: 6 | [ 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 . ]
#1524 | T: 30 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#317 | T: 29 | 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 . ]
#596 | T: 29 | I: 1 | [ 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 . ]
#122 | T: 29 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1759 | T: 29 | 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 . ]
#386 | T: 29 | 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 . ]
#801 | T: 29 | I: 3 | [ 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 ! ]
#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 . ]
#1013 | T: 29 | 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: 29 | 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 . ]
#643 | T: 29 | 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 . ]
#645 | T: 28 | 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: 28 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#338 | T: 28 | 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 . ]
#901 | T: 28 | I: 2 | [ 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 . ]
#1229 | T: 28 | 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: 28 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#504 | T: 28 | I: 3 | [ 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1737 | T: 28 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1577 | T: 28 | I: 5 | [ 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 ? ]
#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 . ]
#77 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1517 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#1746 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#168 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ 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 ? ]
#256 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#486 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ 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 . ]
#1653 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ 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 . ]
#1873 | T: 27 | I: 3 | [ 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 . ]
#1817 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#299 | T: 27 | 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 ! ]
#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 . ]
#320 | T: 27 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#79 | T: 26 | 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 . ]
#219 | T: 26 | I: 2 | [ 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 . ]
#253 | T: 26 | 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: 26 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1555 | T: 26 | 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 . ]
#210 | T: 26 | 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 . ]
#689 | T: 26 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1802 | T: 25 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1096 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ 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 . ]
#1556 | T: 25 | I: 2 | [ 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#506 | T: 25 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1277 | T: 24 | 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: 24 | 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 . ]
#147 | T: 24 | I: 2 | [ one of us will say well , boys .... or it was a near thing that time .... and for a moment we fall silent . ]
#188 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#236 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#274 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#359 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1356 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#167 | T: 24 | 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: 24 | 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 . ]
#480 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#683 | T: 24 | I: 3 | [ kat turns his eyes to heaven , lets off a mighty fart , and says meditatively every little bean must be heard as well as seen . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#571 | T: 24 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1812 | T: 24 | 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 ? ]
#685 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#1170 | T: 23 | I: 1 | [ i remember the awful sights in the hospital the gas patients who in day long suffocation cough up their burnt lungs in clots . ]
#80 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#150 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#688 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#893 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#923 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1211 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#88 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1353 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#4 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#670 | T: 23 | 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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1473 | T: 23 | I: 4 | [ does it go we germans fear god and none else in the whole world , or we , the germans , fear god and i submit . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1250 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ such a kid he repeats it young innocents our losses are less than was to be expected five killed and eight wounded . ]
#1413 | T: 22 | I: 1 | [ but he is on his guard he has already had some rot dinned into him about getting a shot in the back . ]
#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 . ]
#718 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ in order that our fellows going on shouldn t get lost there , himmelstoss used to practise the change in the barrack room . ]
#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 . ]
#1035 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ that s no disgrace , i reassure him many s the man before you has had his pants full after the first bombardment . ]
#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 . ]
#1298 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ müller squints hungrily into it but checks himself and says albert , what would you do if it were suddenly peace time again ? ]
#1311 | T: 22 | I: 2 | [ then he puts it back and swears damned lousy war it s all very well for you to talk , i tell him . ]
#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 . ]
#227 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ here lies our comrade , kemmerich , who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell holes . ]
#815 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ haie squatted down , laid the cushion on his knees , felt where himmelstoss s head was and pressed it down on the pillow . ]
#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 . ]
#1598 | T: 22 | I: 3 | [ he understands it all right though , and lectures himmelstoss , making it plain to him that the front isn t a parade ground . ]
#375 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ with full pack and rifle i have had to practise on a wet , soft , newly ploughed field the prepare to advance , advance ! ]
#605 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ it s a good thing to be friends with him , as kropp and i are , and haie westhus too , more or less . ]
#964 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ they are smaller shells ; and amongst them , booming through the night like an organ , go the great coal boxes and the heavies . ]
#1159 | T: 22 | I: 4 | [ i hear nothing , he rattles me , comes nearer , in a momentary lull his voice reaches me gas gaas gaaas pass it on . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#243 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ it strikes me that these nails will continue to grow like lean fantastic cellar plants long after kemmerich breathes no more . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1370 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ to kropp he says warmly if i were in your place i d see to it that i became a lieutenant . ]
#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 . ]
#1764 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ in a bombproof dug out i may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours bombardment unscathed . ]
#1830 | T: 21 | I: 1 | [ there is a rumour that the enemy are going to put tanks over and use low flying planes for the attack . ]
#25 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ half an hour later every man had his mess tin and we gathered at the cookhouse , which smelt greasy and nourishing . ]
#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 . ]
#198 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ while they taught that duty to one s country is the greatest thing , we already knew that death throes are stronger . ]
#339 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ but as it is the boots are quite inappropriate to kemmerich s circumstances , whereas müller can make good use of them . ]
#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 . ]
#732 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ as sure as they get a stripe or a star they become different men , just as though they d swallowed concrete . ]
#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 . ]
#864 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ the gun emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation , and look like a kind of military feast of the tabernacles . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1680 | T: 21 | I: 2 | [ we don t talk much , but i believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have . ]
#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 . ]
#132 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ on the horizon float the bright yellow , sunlit observation balloons , and the many little white clouds of the anti aircraft shells . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1309 | T: 21 | I: 3 | [ peace time , man , albert he fumbles in his oil cloth pocket book for a photograph and suddenly shows it all round . ]
#604 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ by trade he is a cobbler , i believe , but that hasn t anything to do with it ; he understands all trades . ]
#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 . ]
#1331 | T: 21 | I: 4 | [ just you think , boys , a real featherbed with a spring mattress ; i wouldn t put trousers on again for a week . ]
#49 | T: 21 | I: 5 | [ his sharp , mousy features began to shine , his eyes grew small with cunning , his jaws twitched , and he whispered hoarsely man ! ]
#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 . ]
#795 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ what could he do to us anyhow if he didn t recognise us and we left early in the morning ? ]
#877 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ it is swallowed up in the general murmur of the front kat listens there ll be a bombardment to night . ]
#1102 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ we trudge onward in single file through the trenches and shell holes and come again to the zone of mist . ]
#1233 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ in the meantime kat has taken a bandage from a dead man s pocket and we carefully bind the wound . ]
#1344 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ then he pulls a spoon out of the top of his boot and reaches over into kropp s mess tin . ]
#1369 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ apparently he would like most to have him in a cage and sail into him with a club every morning . ]
#1414 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ the question about the gutter makes tjaden so mad that he becomes almost witty no you slept there by yourself . ]
#1451 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ he goes off with haie and leer so that they won t find him in the first flush of excitement . ]
#1608 | T: 20 | I: 1 | [ an hour later after tjaden and kropp are settled in behind their wire netting we make our way into them . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#134 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ we hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder , bumble bees droning by quite drown it . ]
#255 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ he matches their soles against his own clumsy boots and says will you be taking them with you then , franz ? ]
#830 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss ought to have been pleased ; his saying that we should each educate one another had borne fruit for himself . ]
#1110 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ i don t know , i don t know we come to the communication trench and then to the open fields . ]
#1118 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ the fields are flat , the wood is too distant and dangerous the only cover is the graveyard and the mounds . ]
#1283 | T: 20 | I: 2 | [ he suggests that he brought them back from the hospital at thourhout , where they attended personally on a surgeon general . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#30 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ close behind us were our friends tjaden , a skinny locksmith of our own age , the biggest eater of the company . ]
#161 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ kantorek had been our schoolmaster , a stern little man in a grey tailcoat , with a face like a shrew mouse . ]
#199 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ but for all that we were no mutineers , no deserters , no cowards they were very free with all these expressions . ]
#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 . ]
#762 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ it s simply amazing , i tell you , that the ordinary tommy sticks it all up here in the front line . ]
#1157 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ there , i get a smack in the face , a hand clamps onto my shoulder has the dead man waked up ? ]
#1218 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ gently , gently , it is much better if he has been hit in the stomach he oughtn t to drink anything . ]
#1297 | T: 20 | I: 3 | [ from somewhere or other , probably the pioneer cook house , kropp has bagged for himself a mess tin full of beans . ]
#734 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ roughly speaking it is , says kat , and prepares for a long speech ; but the root of the matter lies somewhere . ]
#1191 | T: 20 | I: 4 | [ my lungs are tight , they breathe always the same hot , used up air , the veins on my temples are swollen . ]
#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 . ]
#741 | T: 20 | I: 5 | [ a non com , can torment a private , a lieutenant a non com , a captain a lieutenant , until he goes mad . ]
#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 . ]
#113 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ i well remembered how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine . ]
#203 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ before going over to see kemmerich we pack up his things he will need them on the way back . ]
#374 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ for six weeks consecutively i did guard every sunday and was hut orderly for the same length of time . ]
#415 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad . ]
#630 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ then we ll have to pull in our belts and wait till the rations come up in the morning . ]
#778 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ the next night they were changed over and the lower one put on top so that he could retaliate . ]
#786 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ we once spent the finest day of our army life together the day before we left for the front . ]
#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 . ]
#1377 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ he looks at the sky and says only the one sentence i would go straight on with the harvesting . ]
#1492 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ kropp supports me how can a man take all that stuff seriously when he s once been out here ? ]
#1749 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ after we have been in the dug outs two hours our own shells begin to fall in the trench . ]
#1775 | T: 19 | I: 1 | [ detering meant to outwit them he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it . ]
#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 . ]
#127 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ not for nothing was the word latrine rumour invented ; these places are the regimental gossip shops and common rooms . ]
#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 . ]
#402 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ he tried it on once more in the ploughed field with his prepare to advance , advance and lie down . ]
#482 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ we are no longer soldiers but little more than boys ; no one would believe that we could carry packs . ]
#528 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ as i catch sight of the white apron i seize hold of it come quick , franz kemmerich is dying . ]
#567 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ some of them are old hands , but there are twenty five men of a later draught from the base . ]
#610 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ there are beds in it , or rather bunks a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched . ]
#971 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ immediately a second is beside him , a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape the airman . ]
#1085 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ the men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain , their wide open mouths full of anguish . ]
#1437 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ haie laughs so much that he dislocates his jaw , and suddenly stands there helpless with his mouth wide open . ]
#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 . ]
#1792 | T: 19 | I: 2 | [ in the adjoining sector they attacked two large cats and a dog , bit them to death and devoured them . ]
#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 . ]
#474 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ he was the only one of us , too , who could do the giant s turn on the horizontal bar . ]
#775 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ in the huts there were the usual bunks , one above the other in pairs , with mattresses of wire netting . ]
#825 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ haie stood him up again , made ready and fetched him a second , well aimed beauty with the left hand . ]
#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 . ]
#1604 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ the clink was once a fowl house ; there we can visit the prisoners , we know how to manage it . ]
#1694 | T: 19 | I: 3 | [ there are sights there that he has not forgotten , because he never possessed them perplexing , yet lost to him . ]
#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 . ]
#414 | T: 19 | I: 6 | [ we became hard , suspicious , pitiless , vicious , tough and that was good ; for these attributes were just what we lacked . ]
#9 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ tjaden and müller have produced two washbasins and had them filled up to the brim as a reserve . ]
#163 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ it is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men . ]
#209 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ müller shakes his head i always told you that nobody should carry as good a watch as that . ]
#411 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ so we were put through every conceivable refinement of parade ground soldiering till we often howled with rage . ]
#505 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ then you can look out from the window across the fields to the two trees on the horizon . ]
#620 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ kropp asks an artilleryman who has been some time in this neighbourhood is there a canteen anywhere abouts ? ]
#678 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ today we have done an hour s saluting drill because tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough . ]
#720 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the beds represented the subway and each man stood at attention on the left side of his bed . ]
#781 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ unfortunately it accomplished nothing because the first assumption was wrong it was not laziness in either of them . ]
#920 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ but had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh . ]
#993 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ he gazes thoughtfully at the front and says mighty fine fire works if they weren t so dangerous . ]
#1227 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ kat spreads out two wads of dressing as wide as possible so that they will cover the wound . ]
#1238 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ what he has gone through so far is nothing to what he s in for till he dies . ]
#1268 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ the two fellows take them at the right moment on their poles and lift them over behind us . ]
#1523 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ two years of shells and bombs a man won t peel that off as easy as a sock . ]
#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 . ]
#1776 | T: 18 | I: 1 | [ during the night when he switched on his pocket torch he saw the wire swing to and fro . ]
#169 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ these teachers always carry their feelings ready in their waistcoat pockets , and trot them out by the hour . ]
#183 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ in the afternoon suddenly we heard him call , and saw him crawling about in no man s land . ]
#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 . ]
#356 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we became soldiers with eagerness and enthusiasm , but they have done everything to knock that out of us . ]
#691 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ that would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement , where the wrong people do the fighting . ]
#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 . ]
#1151 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ my hand gropes farther , splinters of wood now i remember again that we are lying in the graveyard . ]
#1206 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ they have been killed once again ; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us . ]
#1237 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ the youngster will hardly survive the carrying , and at the most he will only last a few days . ]
#1693 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ beyond the sky line is a country with flowers , lying so still that he would like to weep . ]
#1800 | T: 18 | I: 2 | [ we overhaul the bayonets that is to say , the ones that have a saw on the blunt edge . ]
#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 . ]
#67 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ i don t care about the stew , but i can only issue rations for eighty men , persisted ginger . ]
#234 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ kemmerich felt embarrassed , for she was the least composed of all ; she simply dissolved into fat and water . ]
#536 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ i won t revile any more , it is senseless , i could drop down and never rise up again . ]
#680 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ you take it from me , we are losing the war because we can salute too well , he says . ]
#719 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ we had to learn that at lohne , to reach the branch line , we must pass through a subway . ]
#728 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ surely himmelstoss was a very different fellow as a postman , say i , after albert s disappointment has subsided . ]
#1681 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ we are two men , two minute sparks of life ; outside is the night and the circle of death . ]
#1913 | T: 18 | I: 3 | [ then again he has the glowering eyes of a mad dog , he is silent , he shoves me aside . ]
#774 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ he hunted up another piss a bed , named kindervater , from a neighbouring unit , and quartered him with tjaden . ]
#912 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ earth with thy folds , and hollows , and holes , into which a man may fling himself and crouch down . ]
#1306 | T: 18 | I: 4 | [ don t talk rot , i mean seriously so do i , says kropp , what else should a man do ? ]
#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 . ]
#533 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the man looks at me and says one operation after another since five o clock this morning . ]
#588 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky plants himself in front of it like a general and says sharp eyes and light fingers ! ]
#639 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ disappointed we lie down and consider whether we couldn t have a go at the iron rations . ]
#746 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ at once the company is turned about and has to do another hour s drill as punishment . ]
#749 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ it s simply that the company commander s head has been turned by having so much power . ]
#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 . ]
#1276 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the little beasts are hard and the everlasting cracking with one s fingernails very soon becomes wearisome . ]
#1420 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the satisfaction of months shines in his dull pig s eyes as he spits out dirty hound ! ]
#1455 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ kropp is contented now and more accommodating how many of us were there in the class exactly ? ]
#1612 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ when we break it up kat says to me what do you say to some roast goose ? ]
#1670 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ we intend to make two cushions out of them with the inscription sleep soft under shell fire . ]
#1768 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ the rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are no longer in good condition . ]
#1801 | T: 17 | I: 1 | [ if the fellows over there catch a man with one of those he s killed at sight . ]
#14 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i have exchanged my chewing tobacco with katczinsky for his cigarettes , which means i have forty altogether . ]
#264 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ i tread on müller s foot ; reluctantly he puts the fine boots back again under the bed . ]
#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 . ]
#491 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ kemmerich s face changes colour , it lifts from the pillow and is so pale that it gleams . ]
#535 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ there will probably be twenty altogether i become faint , all at once i cannot do any more . ]
#606 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ but haie is rather the executive arm , operating under kat s orders when things come to blows . ]
#730 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the question revives kropp , more particularly as he hears there s no more beer in the canteen . ]
#771 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ tjaden has a special grudge against himmelstoss , because of the way he educated him in the barracks . ]
#783 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the matter ended in one of them always sleeping on the floor , where he frequently caught cold . ]
#818 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ tjaden unbuttoned himmelstoss s braces and pulled down his trousers , holding the whip meantime in his teeth . ]
#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 . ]
#1182 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ kropp seizes him just in time , twists the hand sharply behind his back and holds it fast . ]
#1269 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ we hear their call mind wire , dip the knee in a half sleep and straighten up again . ]
#1639 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ then the row begins ; one of them gets his breath and goes off like an alarm clock . ]
#1770 | T: 17 | I: 2 | [ the rats here are particularly repulsive , they are so fat the kind we all call corpse rats . ]
#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 . ]
#204 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ in the dressing station there is great activity it reeks as ever of carbolic , pus , and sweat . ]
#1493 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ still you must have an occupation of some sort , insists müller , as though he were kantorek himself . ]
#1731 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow , unpolished , brand new coffins . ]
#1744 | T: 17 | I: 3 | [ kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops troops , munitions , and guns . ]
#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 . ]
#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 ! ]
#45 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ and i have cooked for one hundred and fifty men kropp poked him in the ribs . ]
#125 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ enforced publicity has in our eyes restored the character of complete innocence to all these things . ]
#128 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white tiled convenience . ]
#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 . ]
#644 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ someone growls that he will pound tjaden into bog myrtle if he doesn t shut up . ]
#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 . ]
#1282 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ haie has a particularly fine brand of louse they have a red cross on their heads . ]
#1396 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ but he seems to have learned already that the front line isn t a parade ground . ]
#1498 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ kat and detering and haie will go back to their jobs because they had them already . ]
#1596 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we are silent he must know himself how much use it is in reporting such things . ]
#1703 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ we take out our collapsible forks and our pocket knives and each cuts off a leg . ]
#1724 | T: 16 | I: 1 | [ he drinks the gravy from the pot and smacks his lips may i never forget you ! ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#242 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ under the nails is the dirt of the trenches , it shows through blue black like poison . ]
#361 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ we learned in fact that some of these things were necessary , but the rest merely show . ]
#481 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ but when we go bathing and strip , suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders . ]
#580 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ you ve been in luck , it s nothing new for it to be made of sawdust . ]
#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 . ]
#829 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ haie looked round once again and said wrathfully , satisfied and rather mysteriously revenge is black pudding . ]
#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 . ]
#1014 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ and though there is plenty of meat there , a shot in it can be damned painful . ]
#1093 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ then only again the rockets , the singing of the shells and the stars there most strange . ]
#1168 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ all four of us lie there in heavy , watchful suspense and breathe as lightly as possible . ]
#1265 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the lorries bump through the holes , and we rock to and fro in a half sleep . ]
#1274 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ nothing happens only the monotonous cry mind wire , our knees bend we are again half asleep . ]
#1448 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ well , for the time being the war will be over so far as i am concerned . ]
#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 . ]
#1723 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ tjaden holds a wing in his mouth with both hands like a mouth organ , and gnaws . ]
#1727 | T: 16 | I: 2 | [ the outlines of the huts are upon us in the dawn like a dark , deep sleep . ]
#81 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ he informed himself of the dispute , and only remarked yes , we did have heavy losses yesterday . ]
#96 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ and now get on with it , you old blubber sticker , and don t you miscount either . ]
#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 ! ]
#1313 | T: 16 | I: 3 | [ true , he nods , and i have to see to it that they ve something to eat . ]
#398 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ show you up , corporal , said kropp , his thumbs in line with the seams of his trousers . ]
#752 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ that , of course , is only a trifling instance , but it holds also in very different affairs . ]
#1456 | T: 16 | I: 4 | [ we count up out of twenty , seven are dead , four wounded , one in a mad house . ]
#1771 | T: 16 | I: 5 | [ they have shocking , evil , naked faces , and it is nauseating to see their long , nude tails . ]
#8 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ he does not see how he can empty his stew pot in time for coffee . ]
#165 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i have always taken good care to keep out of sections with small company commanders . ]
#239 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ you would have had to wait at least three or four months for your leave . ]
#269 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ he is thinking of the lace up boots and means to be on the spot . ]
#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 . ]
#513 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ but franz i put my arm round his shoulder and put my face against his . ]
#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 . ]
#729 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ then how does it come that he s such a bully as a drill sergeant ? ]
#903 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ perhaps it is our inner and most secret life that shivers and falls on guard . ]
#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 . ]
#1114 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ we duck down a cloud of flame shoots up a hundred yards ahead of us . ]
#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 . ]
#1163 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the dull thud of the gas shells mingles with the crashes of the high explosives . ]
#1169 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ these first minutes with the mask decide between life and death is it air tight ? ]
#1180 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the coffin has hit the fourth man in our hole on his out stretched arm . ]
#1417 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ he must bring off his insult wouldn t you like to know what you are ? ]
#1438 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ albert has to put it back again by giving it a blow with his fist . ]
#1568 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ kropp lies back on the grass and says have you ever been out here before ? ]
#1588 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ i have to appear as a witness and explain the reason of tjaden s insubordination . ]
#1619 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ the out house is behind the wall and the door shuts with just a peg . ]
#1755 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ we lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty . ]
#1844 | T: 15 | I: 1 | [ slowly the grey light trickles into the post and pales the flashes of the shells . ]
#2 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ yesterday we were relieved , and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans . ]
#182 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ we couldn t bring him with us , because we had to come back helter skelter . ]
#403 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ we obeyed each order , since an order s an order and has to be obeyed . ]
#412 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ many of us became ill through it ; wolf actually died of inflammation of the lung . ]
#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 . ]
#988 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ the old veteran , he sits quietly and smokes his pipe a covered pipe of course . ]
#1086 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ one of the men goes down on one knee , a shot one horse drops 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 . ]
#1173 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ like a big , soft jellyfish it floats into our shell hole and lolls there obscenely . ]
#1599 | T: 15 | I: 2 | [ then comes tjaden s turn , he gets a long sermon and three days open arrest . ]
#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 . ]
#109 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ they are square , neat boxes with wooden sides all round , and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats . ]
#443 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ don t talk rubbish ; franz , in a couple of days you ll see for yourself . ]
#906 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ from the earth , from the air , sustaining forces pour into us mostly from the earth . ]
#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 ? ]
#1164 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ a bell sounds between the explosions , gongs , and metal clappers warning everyone gas gas gaas . ]
#1587 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ in the orderly room sits our lieutenant , bertink , and calls us in one after another . ]
#1910 | T: 15 | I: 3 | [ i ll be back in a minute , says he , and tries to push past me . ]
#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 . ]
#917 | T: 15 | I: 5 | [ it is not conscious ; it is far quicker , much more sure , less fallible , than consciousness . ]
#12 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ what s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes . ]
#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 . ]
#215 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ not so bad ... but i have such a damned pain in my foot . ]
#295 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i think of the letter that i must write tomorrow to kemmerich s mother . ]
#387 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he planted himself in front of us and asked how we liked the job . ]
#428 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ i nod and answer you must be thankful you ve come off with that . ]
#457 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ after a pause he says slowly i wanted to become a head forester once . ]
#461 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ you can move the fingers and work and even write with an artificial hand . ]
#464 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ then he says you can take my lace up boots with you for müller . ]
#615 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ kat looks at the place and then says to haie westhus come with me . ]
#661 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ he wonders whether to praise kat and so perhaps gam a little for himself . ]
#710 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ those early morning hours of instruction what are the parts of the 98 rifle ? ]
#743 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ take a simple case we are marching back from the parade ground dog tired . ]
#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 . ]
#834 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ that evening s work made us more or less content to leave next morning . ]
#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 . ]
#952 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we skirt a small wood and then have the front line immediately before us . ]
#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 . ]
#1094 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ detering walks up and down cursing like to know what harm they ve done . ]
#1242 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ and to whom does it matter whether he has them or not i nod . ]
#1275 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ five killing each separate louse is a tedious business when a man has hundreds . ]
#1460 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ we guess not we wouldn t let ourselves be sat on for that matter . ]
#1476 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ how do you expect to succeed in life if you don t know that ? ]
#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 . ]
#1831 | T: 14 | I: 1 | [ but that interests us less than what we hear of the new flame throwers . ]
#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 . ]
#102 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the mail has come , and almost every man has a few letters and papers . ]
#155 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ müller explains that he has a flesh wound in his thigh ; a good blighty . ]
#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 . ]
#290 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ if he passes out in the night , we know where the boots kropp returns . ]
#459 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ there are splendid artificial limbs now , you d hardly know there was anything missing . ]
#494 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ he whispers if you find my watch , send it home i do not reply . ]
#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 ! ]
#534 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ you know , to day alone there have been sixteen deaths yours is the seventeenth . ]
#541 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the orderly pokes me in the ribs , are you taking his things with you ? ]
#543 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ he goes on we must take him away at once , we want the bed . ]
#640 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but it s too risky ; so we try to get a wink of sleep . ]
#662 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but katczinsky doesn t even see him , he might as well be thin air . ]
#843 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ müller is in a good mood for once ; he is wearing his new boots . ]
#856 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ a glance at katczinsky a glance from him to me ; we understand one another . ]
#1101 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ the breeze is fresh and cool , the pale hour makes our faces look grey . ]
#1146 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ shells hardly ever land in the same hole twice , i ll get into it . ]
#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 . ]
#1285 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ but he gets little response to day ; we are too preoccupied with another affair . ]
#1319 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ give you a kick in the backside for the way you talk , i say . ]
#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 . ]
#1713 | T: 14 | I: 2 | [ how would it be , kat if we took a bit to kropp and tjaden ? ]
#324 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ besides this there was little else some enthusiasm , a few hobbies , and our school . ]
#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 . ]
#987 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ smooth skin ; it lasts only a second , then i recognise the silhouette of katczinsky . ]
#1064 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we see a dark group , bearers with stretchers , and larger black clumps moving about . ]
#1560 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we know how to do that to play cards , to swear , and to fight . ]
#1625 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ softly i steal across , lift the peg , pull it out and open the door . ]
#1651 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ the slightest movement and then an awful growl ; i lie still , then try again . ]
#1852 | T: 14 | I: 3 | [ we must watch them , these things are catching , already some lips begin to quiver . ]
#963 | T: 14 | I: 4 | [ above us the air teems with invisible swift movement , with howls , pipings , and hisses . ]
#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 . ]
#65 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ eighty men can t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#529 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he frees himself and asks an orderly standing by which will that be ? ]
#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 . ]
#664 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ kat knows the way to roast horse flesh so that it s tender . ]
#667 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ with our knives we squat round in a circle and fill our bellies . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1190 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ inside the gas mask my head booms and roars it is nigh bursting . ]
#1224 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ i wet his temples with a moistened finger and give him a swig . ]
#1383 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ they haven t brought in the hay yet at this moment himmelstoss appears . ]
#1386 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ he stretches his length on the grass and shuts his eyes in excitement . ]
#1540 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ it is queer that almost all of the regular sergeant majors are fat . ]
#1631 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ like a madman i bash their heads against the wall to stun them . ]
#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 . ]
#1822 | T: 13 | I: 1 | [ above me the rockets and parachute lights shoot up and float down again . ]
#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 . ]
#50 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ then you ve got bread for one hundred and fifty men too , eh ? ]
#139 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the wind plays with our hair ; it plays with our words and thoughts . ]
#140 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the three boxes stand in the midst of the glowing , red field poppies . ]
#149 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ we are all sensible of it ; it needs no words to communicate it . ]
#162 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ he was about the same size as corporal himmelstoss , the terror of klosterberg . ]
#197 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ while they continued to write and talk , we saw the wounded and dying . ]
#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 . ]
#665 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ it shouldn t be put straight into the pan , that makes it tough . ]
#671 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ it is uncanny ; one would think he conjured it out of the air . ]
#759 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ and it may be so ; still it oughtn t to become an abuse . ]
#797 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ returning to the barracks he had to go along a dark , uninhabited road . ]
#891 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the burst of flame shoots across the fog , the guns roar and boom . ]
#989 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ when he sees i am awake , he says that gave you a fright . ]
#990 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ it was only a nose cap , it landed in the bushes over there . ]
#1175 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ but we don t get as far as that ; a second bombardment begins . ]
#1247 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ a little group is gathering , from the shell holes and trenches appear heads . ]
#1443 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ the least you ll get will be five days close arrest , says kat . ]
#1606 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ they used to tie us to a tree , but that is forbidden now . ]
#1627 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ two geese , that s bad if i grab one the other will cackle . ]
#1666 | T: 13 | I: 2 | [ there is a sort of hearth , an iron plate set on some bricks . ]
#392 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ there ll be an enquiry first , he said , and then we ll unload . ]
#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 . ]
#1315 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ they won t lack for that , kat , you d scrounge it from somewhere . ]
#1349 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ some ways , says he , and with open mouth sinks into a day dream . ]
#1738 | T: 13 | I: 3 | [ the others jest too , unpleasant jests , but what else can a man do ? ]
#577 | T: 13 | I: 4 | [ for breakfast , turnip bread lunch , turnip stew supper , turnip cutlets and turnip salad . ]
#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 . ]
#6 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we have not had such luck as this for a long time . ]
#32 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook house . ]
#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 . ]
#160 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ müller throws his cigarette away and says i wish he was here . ]
#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 . ]
#413 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ but we would have felt ridiculous had we hauled down our colours . ]
#423 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the doctor passes by kemmerich s bed without once looking at him . ]
#442 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i stoop over bin and he whispers i don t think so . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#624 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ you won t find so much as a crust of bread here . ]
#642 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ tjaden gives an account of his national dish broad beans and bacon . ]
#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 ! ]
#722 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ and like lightning everyone scrambled under the bed to the opposite side . ]
#740 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the mischief is merely that each one has much too much power . ]
#835 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ and an old buffer was pleased to describe us as young heroes . ]
#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 . ]
#929 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ mist and the smoke of guns lie breast high over the fields . ]
#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 . ]
#1034 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ that wasn t the reason i had stuck his helmet over it . ]
#1116 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the shells begin to hiss like safety valves heavy fire take cover ! ]
#1137 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ still that does not reassure me wounds don t hurt till afterwards . ]
#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 . ]
#1181 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he tries to tear off his gas mask with the other hand . ]
#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 . ]
#1324 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he shakes his freckled head you mean when the war s over ? ]
#1364 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ he pulls his shirt over his head and buttons up his tunic . ]
#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 . ]
#1410 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i don t remember that we ever slept in the gutter together ? ]
#1419 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ i ve been wanting to tell you that for a long time . ]
#1461 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ what do you mean by the three fold theme in william tell ? ]
#1483 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we ll have to go back and sit on the forms again . ]
#1559 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards . ]
#1579 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we ve been waiting here a long time for someone like you . ]
#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 . ]
#1671 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ the sound of the gunfire from the front penetrates into our refuge . ]
#1690 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ in a half sleep i watch kat dip and raise the ladle . ]
#1715 | T: 12 | I: 1 | [ we carve off a portion and wrap it up carefully in newspaper . ]
#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 . ]
#33 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we were growing impatient , for the cook paid no attention to us . ]
#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 . ]
#499 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ and the fat , weeping woman at home to whom i must write . ]
#547 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ i say that it is probably in the orderly room , and go . ]
#555 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the night crackles electrically , the front thunders like a concert of drums . ]
#681 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ kropp stalks up , with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare . ]
#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 . ]
#875 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ you can tell by the report ; now you ll hear the burst . ]
#1069 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ he becomes tangled in them and falls , then he stands up again . ]
#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 . ]
#1402 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ the red moustache twitches you don t recognise me any more , what ? ]
#1439 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ kat is troubled if he reports you , it ll be pretty serious . ]
#1489 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ if you have no money , you have to work like the devil . ]
#1536 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ we believe in such things no longer , we believe in the war . ]
#1561 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ not much for twenty years ; and yet too much for twenty years . ]
#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 . ]
#1826 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ nothing happens till i am relieved ; only the everlasting rolling over there . ]
#1897 | T: 12 | I: 2 | [ a corporal creeps in ; he has a loaf of bread with him . ]
#34 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ finally katczinsky called to him say , heinrich , open up the soup kitchen . ]
#381 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ alongside me ran the corporal , himmelstoss , and trod on my bare toes . ]
#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 . ]
#1270 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ monotonously the lorries sway , monotonously come the calls , monotonously falls the rain . ]
#1454 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ albert , if you were really at home now , what would you do ? ]
#1467 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ you ll never make anything of your life , bã umer , croaks müller . ]
#1628 | T: 12 | I: 3 | [ well , both of them if i m quick , it can be done . ]
#1470 | T: 12 | I: 4 | [ you lack the studious mind , kropp , sit down , three minus i say . ]
#36 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he shook his head sleepily you must all be there first . ]
#42 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ they re either in the dressing station or pushing up daisies . ]
#43 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ the cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him . ]
#78 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ now bulcke of the first company is a much better fellow . ]
#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 . ]
#143 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ after every misã re ouverte we have a round of nap . ]
#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 ! ]
#321 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ all the older men are linked up with their previous life . ]
#327 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ kantorek would say that we stood on the threshold of life . ]
#406 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but before we had even begun to sweat he was hoarse . ]
#509 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i lean down over his face which lies in the shadow . ]
#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 . ]
#619 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ now we might sleep if we weren t so terribly hungry . ]
#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 . ]
#769 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ beaming with satisfaction he stammers out himmelstoss is on his way . ]
#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 . ]
#876 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ but the muffled thud of the burst does not reach us . ]
#882 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is the english batteries to the right of our section . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1041 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ a couple of columns over there got it in the neck . ]
#1112 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ there s the cemetery with the mounds and the black crosses . ]
#1185 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ fortunately the man swoons and kropp is able to help us . ]
#1226 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we see now that the right arm is bleeding as well . ]
#1232 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he is the fair headed boy of a little while ago . ]
#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 . ]
#1335 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ at last müller pulls himself together and says and then what ? ]
#1337 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ then haie explains rather awkwardly if i were a non com . ]
#1338 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ i d stay with the prussians and serve out my time . ]
#1435 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we watch him disappear in the direction of the orderly room . ]
#1436 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ haie and tjaden burst into a regular peat digger s bellow . ]
#1459 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ do you think they would still let kantorek sit on them ? ]
#1463 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ what was the purpose of the poetic league of gã ttingen ? ]
#1471 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ what offices did lycurgus consider the most important for the state ? ]
#1497 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ he puts the knife away and continues that s just it . ]
#1539 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ at the head of the column trots the fat sergeant major . ]
#1600 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ bertink gives kropp a wink and one day s open arrest . ]
#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 . ]
#1710 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we are brothers and press on one another the choicest pieces . ]
#1719 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ so we go off to the fowl house to waken them . ]
#1729 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ we go up to the front two days earlier than usual . ]
#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 . ]
#1900 | T: 11 | I: 1 | [ it is a mystery where the enemy gets all his shells . ]
#180 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ strange to say , behm was one of the first to fall . ]
#280 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ if you don t think so , then why do you ask ? ]
#503 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ you can see he is waiting , apparently he wants the bed . ]
#526 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i jump up , stumble outside and demand where is the doctor ? ]
#558 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i feel a hunger , greater than comes from the belly alone . ]
#574 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ long time since you ve had anything decent to eat , eh ? ]
#600 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ we couldn t do without katczinsky ; he has a sixth sense . ]
#857 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ kat , i hear some aspirants for the frying pan over there . ]
#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 . ]
#1092 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ only a long drawn , dying sigh still hangs on the air . ]
#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 . ]
#1148 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ i open my eyes my fingers grasp a sleeve , an arm . ]
#1202 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ we lift up the wounded man , one taking his splinted arm . ]
#1288 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ he appeared yesterday ; we ve already heard the well known voice . ]
#1491 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ but it s rot all the same , everything they teach you . ]
#1501 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ how will we ever get used to one after this , here ? ]
#1513 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ you ll be dead one day , so what does it matter ? ]
#1549 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ you won t say , that s the fact of the matter . ]
#1551 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ fatty looks round enquiringly ; but tjaden is not to be seen . ]
#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 . ]
#1734 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ that s a good preparation for the offensive , says müller astonished . ]
#1784 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ it grows , now it is the sound of many little feet . ]
#1880 | T: 11 | I: 2 | [ still the food does not last out ; we are damnably hungry . ]
#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 . ]
#308 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ yes , that s the way they think , these hundred thousand kantoreks ! ]
#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 . ]
#1243 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ yes , kat , we ought to put him out of his misery . ]
#1432 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ tjaden replies , without knowing it , in the well known classical phrase . ]
#1887 | T: 11 | I: 3 | [ towards morning , while it is still dark , there is some excitement . ]
#757 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ they say , of course , there must be discipline , ventures kropp meditatively . ]
#1113 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ that moment it breaks out behind us , swells , roars , and thunders . ]
#1361 | T: 11 | I: 4 | [ you ll never be a non com , though , haie , interrupts kat . ]
#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 . ]
#61 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then ginger stirred himself and said that won t do . ]
#89 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he lifted the lid from the dixie again and sniffed . ]
#90 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ then passing on he said bring me a plate full . ]
#95 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ anyone would think the quartermaster s store belonged to him ! ]
#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 . ]
#265 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we talk a little more and then take our leave . ]
#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 . ]
#377 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ until i was one lump of mud and finally collapsed . ]
#400 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but before he disappeared he growled you ll drink this ! ]
#404 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but we did it so slowly that himmelstoss became desperate . ]
#449 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ just eat decently and you ll soon be well again . ]
#451 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he points to a dish that is still half full . ]
#465 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i nod and wonder what to say to encourage him . ]
#501 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ hospital orderlies go to and fro with bottles and pails . ]
#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 . ]
#594 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i gave him three pieces of parachute silk for it . ]
#618 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ kat has found a horse box with straw in it . ]
#638 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but don t strain yourself in carrying what you find . ]
#673 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ admittedly we would rather have had a good beef steak . ]
#704 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ the rooms are cool and one looks toward them longingly . ]
#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 . ]
#884 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ according to us they start punctually at ten o clock . ]
#939 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ guns and munition wagons are moving along a cross road . ]
#978 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but there is still some time before the lorries come . ]
#1007 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ beside us lies a fair headed recruit in utter terror . ]
#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 . ]
#1061 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we stand up and try to see where it is . ]
#1141 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ like lightning the thought comes to me don t faint ! ]
#1194 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ i climb out over the edge of the shell hole . ]
#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 . ]
#1368 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ see to it that himmelstoss didn t get past me . ]
#1381 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ they ve already taken away two more of his horses . ]
#1391 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he continues to stand in front of us and wait . ]
#1411 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he has no idea what to make of the situation . ]
#1519 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ all at once everything seems to me confused and hopeless . ]
#1522 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but nobody at home seems to worry much about it . ]
#1526 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ albert expresses it the war has ruined us for everything . ]
#1529 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we don t want to take the world by storm . ]
#1553 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ tjaden will report at the orderly room in ten minutes . ]
#1580 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he sits down again and himmelstoss disappears like a comet . ]
#1597 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ it isn t usual to make complaints in the army . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1753 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ to night two of our men were wounded by them . ]
#1766 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ but every soldier believes in chance and trusts his luck . ]
#1809 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ and what s more the blade often gets broken off . ]
#1814 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ we have tired faces and avoid each other s eyes . ]
#1816 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ there we were shelled steadily for seven days and nights . ]
#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 . ]
#1912 | T: 10 | I: 1 | [ he listens for a moment and his eyes become clear . ]
#10 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ in tjaden this is voracity , in müller it is foresight . ]
#60 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ each man gets wait a bit yes , practically two issues . ]
#129 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ there it can only be hygienic ; here it is beautiful . ]
#545 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ i collect kemmerich s things , and untie his identification disc . ]
#553 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ soldiers pass by me , i hear their voices without understanding . ]
#731 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it s not only himmelstoss , there are lots of them . ]
#755 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it goes to the heads of them all , you see . ]
#975 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it is that awful stuff with close set , long spikes . ]
#1028 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ you ll get used to it soon , i tell him . ]
#1043 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it is not men , they could not cry so terribly . ]
#1060 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ they must look after the men first , says kat quietly . ]
#1209 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we stop ; kropp goes on alone with the wounded man . ]
#1299 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ there won t be any peace time , says albert bluntly . ]
#1345 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it can t be worse than digging trenches , i venture . ]
#1480 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ anyway , it has never been the slightest use to us . ]
#1508 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ let s get back first , then we ll find out . ]
#1512 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ i don t want to do anything , replies kropp wearily . ]
#1584 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ next time i ll let fly , i say to albert . ]
#1601 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ it can t be helped , he says to him regretfully . ]
#1677 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ aeroplanes drone ; the tack tack of machine guns breaks out . ]
#1797 | T: 10 | I: 2 | [ we drink it of course ; but are not greatly comforted . ]
#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 . ]
#1422 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ what s that , you muck rake , you dirty peat stealer ? ]
#1428 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ tjaden , i command you , as your superior officer stand up ! ]
#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 . ]
#1886 | T: 10 | I: 3 | [ we are short of water , too , but not seriously yet . ]
#1129 | T: 10 | I: 4 | [ the wood vanishes , it is pounded , crushed , torn to pieces . ]
#18 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we have only a miscalculation to thank for it . ]
#41 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ they won t be fed by you to day . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 ? ]
#252 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ müller reappears with a pair of airman s boots . ]
#262 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ out here one can make some use of them . ]
#267 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i promise him to come back in the morning . ]
#281 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i press a few more cigarettes into his hand . ]
#284 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he doesn t trust him and wants to see . ]
#307 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ kropp rails he is glad that he can speak . ]
#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 . ]
#393 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ mind how you speak to a non commissioned officer ! ]
#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 . ]
#583 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the youngster turns red you can t kid me . ]
#625 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ aren t there any inhabitants here at all then ? ]
#628 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but they hang round the cook house and beg . ]
#631 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but i see kat has put on his cap . ]
#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 . ]
#679 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ kat can t get it out of his head . ]
#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 . ]
#727 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ disgruntled he counts out the money from his wallet . ]
#777 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the man underneath of course had a vile time . ]
#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 . ]
#805 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i slipped round the pile of stones with tjaden . ]
#827 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ his striped postman s backside gleamed in the moonlight . ]
#836 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ four we have to go up on wiring fatigue . ]
#849 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ beside us stream the munition columns in long files . ]
#859 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it will be attended to when we come back . ]
#867 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the fumes of powder taste bitter on the tongue . ]
#874 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ kat explains to them that was a twelve inch . ]
#898 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the body with one bound is in full readiness . ]
#948 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ there are some shell smashed lorries in the road . ]
#973 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ at regular intervals we ram in the iron stakes . ]
#1031 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then suddenly he turns fiery red and looks confused . ]
#1052 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he is a farmer and very fond of horses . ]
#1054 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then as if deliberately the fire dies down again . ]
#1073 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ detering trembles and throws his rifle on the ground . ]
#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 . ]
#1150 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i yell to him no answer a dead man . ]
#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 . ]
#1246 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ we look round but we are no longer alone . ]
#1252 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ two of our dead lie in the upturned graves . ]
#1278 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the lice are simply thrown into this little pan . ]
#1321 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ how does the cow shit come on the roof ? ]
#1347 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and there s no getting out of it either . ]
#1358 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ and just you think how you d be treated . ]
#1360 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ everybody wants to be well in with a bobby . ]
#1374 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ he s a born schoolmaster with all his questions . ]
#1392 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ as no one says anything he launches a well ! ]
#1394 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ apparently himmelstoss doesn t quite know what to do . ]
#1478 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ which he caps with what is meant by cohesion ? ]
#1504 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ but what will really happen when we go back ? ]
#1514 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i don t think we ll ever go back . ]
#1554 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ then he steams off with himmelstoss in his wake . ]
#1557 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i go into the hut and put tjaden wise . ]
#1572 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ see up there where those little white clouds are . ]
#1586 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the case comes up for trial in the evening . ]
#1589 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ the story of the bed wetting makes an impression . ]
#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 . ]
#1673 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ sometimes a heavy crash and the lean to shivers . ]
#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 . ]
#1730 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ on the way we pass a shelled school house . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1896 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ it is one of the less deep dug outs . ]
#1909 | T: 9 | I: 1 | [ i intercept him and say where are you going ? ]
#233 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ she wept continually , her face was bloated and swollen . ]
#238 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ now you will soon be going home , says kropp . ]
#340 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ kemmerich will die ; it is immaterial who gets them . ]
#430 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i resume it might have been both legs , franz . ]
#462 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ and besides , they will always be making new improvements . ]
#652 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ he has the bread , the rest doesn t matter . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1038 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ things become quieter , but the cries do not cease . ]
#1178 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ it lands close beside us ; a coffin thrown up . ]
#1219 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ there s no vomiting , that s a good sign . ]
#1318 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ haie , what would you do if it was peacetime ? ]
#1322 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ retorts müller laconically , and turns to haie westhus again . ]
#1387 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss is a little hesitant , his gait becomes slower . ]
#1425 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ you take a run and jump at yourself , himmelstoss . ]
#1472 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ asks müller , pretending to take off his pince nez . ]
#1718 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ i agree , we will have to take it all . ]
#1736 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ don t talk rot , says kat to him angrily . ]
#1815 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ it will be like the somme , says kat gloomily . ]
#1838 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ the dug out heaves , the night roars and flashes . ]
#1858 | T: 9 | I: 2 | [ the attack does not come , but the bombardment continues . ]
#282 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ do us the favour well , all right , he says . ]
#591 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ great guts , kat , how did you come by that ? ]
#1171 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ cautiously , the mouth applied to the valve , i breathe . ]
#1300 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ well , but if persists müller , what would you do ? ]
#1401 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ a bit longer than you , i fancy , he retorts . ]
#1782 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ detering , kropp , and kat hold their pocket torches ready . ]
#1905 | T: 9 | I: 3 | [ these hunted , protruding eyes , we know them too well . ]
#62 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we got excited and began to crowd around . ]
#70 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you haven t drawn food for eighty men . ]
#71 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ you ve drawn it for the second company . ]
#93 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ ginger looked sheepish as tjaden danced round him . ]
#170 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but we didn t think of that then . ]
#186 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ naturally we couldn t blame kantorek for this . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#401 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but that was the end of his authority . ]
#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 . ]
#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 ? ]
#612 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and there s nothing to put on it . ]
#641 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp divides a cigarette and hands me half . ]
#648 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the artilleryman s pipe drops from his mouth . ]
#687 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp on the other hand is a thinker . ]
#711 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the midday hours of physical training pianist forward ! ]
#713 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ report to the cook house for potato peeling . ]
#715 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ kropp laughs suddenly and says change at lohne ! ]
#724 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ meanwhile the german aeroplane has been shot down . ]
#748 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ now what s the use of all that ? ]
#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 . ]
#780 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the idea was not low but ill conceived . ]
#788 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we were due to leave next morning early . ]
#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 . ]
#962 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the dry bursts of the machine guns rattle . ]
#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 . ]
#1003 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ green rockets shoot up on the sky line . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1256 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ the wounded are taken to the dressing station . ]
#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 . ]
#1316 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ müller is insatiable and gives himself no peace . ]
#1317 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ he wakes haie westhus out of his dream . ]
#1346 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ haie chews and grins it lasts longer though . ]
#1362 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ haie looks at him sadly and is silent . ]
#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 . ]
#1426 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss is a raging book of army regulations . ]
#1433 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ at the same time he ventilates his backside . ]
#1446 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ and if they send you to the fortress ? ]
#1479 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ we remember mighty little of all that rubbish . ]
#1488 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ a student s life isn t any better . ]
#1521 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ it will go pretty hard with us all . ]
#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 . ]
#1567 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ haven t you been to look for him ? ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1805 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ but the bayonet has practically lost its importance . ]
#1821 | T: 8 | I: 1 | [ at night i squat in the listening post . ]
#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 . ]
#51 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ the sergeant cook nodded absent minded , and bewildered . ]
#63 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ why won t that do , you old carrot ? ]
#179 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ and what kat said , he had thought about . ]
#277 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ are you usually allowed to give it , then ? ]
#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 . ]
#654 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ cut some wood , he says curtly to haie . ]
#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 . ]
#887 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ there ll be a bombardment , i tell you . ]
#970 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ one of them pauses , and quivers a little . ]
#991 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i sit up , i feel myself strangely alone . ]
#1103 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ katczinsky is restive , that s a bad sign . ]
#1108 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ we ll soon be out of it , kat . ]
#1405 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss turns to him tjaden , isn t it ? ]
#1418 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ a dirty hound , that s what you are . ]
#1434 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i ll have you court martialled , storms himmelstoss . ]
#1487 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ and if you do get through , what then ? ]
#1518 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i don t see anything at all , albert . ]
#1566 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ then you d better find him , he persists . ]
#1569 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ that s none of your business , retorts himmelstoss . ]
#1594 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ why didn t someone report the matter , then ? ]
#1696 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ is my face wet , and where am i ? ]
#1823 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ i am cautious and tense , my heart thumps . ]
#1911 | T: 8 | I: 2 | [ wait a bit , the shelling will stop soon . ]
#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 ? ]
#650 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ real bread , by god , and still hot too ? ]
#1327 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ well , there d be women of course , eh ? ]
#1339 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ haie , you ve got a screw loose , surely ! ]
#1348 | T: 8 | I: 3 | [ but , man , surely it s better at home . ]
#364 | T: 8 | I: 4 | [ kropp , müller , kemmerich , and i went to no . ]
#5 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that puts a man in fine trim . ]
#35 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ anyone can see the beans are done . ]
#38 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant cook still took no notice . ]
#46 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then for once we ll have enough . ]
#137 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we read letters and newspapers and smoke . ]
#144 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ one could sit like this for ever . ]
#158 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kantorek sends you all his best wishes . ]
#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 . ]
#263 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ still kemmerich is not to be moved . ]
#300 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we walk on for a long time . ]
#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 . ]
#396 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ you wait till you re spoken to . ]
#407 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ after that he left us in peace . ]
#440 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ once you ve got over the operation . ]
#444 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ what is it anyway an amputated leg ? ]
#448 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that s the result of the operation . ]
#460 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ they are fixed on to the muscles . ]
#525 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ suddenly kemmerich groans and begins to gurgle . ]
#544 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ outside they are lying on the floor . ]
#546 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the orderly asks about the pay book . ]
#564 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ with it goes hot tea and rum . ]
#584 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky merely says fetch your mess tin . ]
#614 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we use our blankets to cover ourselves . ]
#623 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there s nothing to be had here . ]
#634 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ just to explore the place a bit . ]
#657 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ haie makes a fire on the floor . ]
#672 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ his masterpiece was four boxes of lobsters . ]
#707 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky paints it all in lively colours . ]
#716 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that was our corporal s favourite game . ]
#721 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then came the command change at lohne ! ]
#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 . ]
#779 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ that was himmelstoss s system of selfeducation . ]
#799 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i had a bed cover with me . ]
#837 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the motor lorries roll up after dark . ]
#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 . ]
#932 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ their helmets gleam softly in the moonlight . ]
#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 . ]
#1021 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ red rockets shoot up to the sky . ]
#1023 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ where we are it is still quiet . ]
#1055 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the screaming of the beasts becomes louder . ]
#1057 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ detering raves and yells out shoot them ! ]
#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 . ]
#1130 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we must stay here in the graveyard . ]
#1152 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but the shelling is stronger than everything . ]
#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 . ]
#1223 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ this lad won t walk any more . ]
#1235 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we don t know if he understands . ]
#1239 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ now he is numb and feels nothing . ]
#1350 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ you can see what he is thinking . ]
#1354 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ haie is extraordinarily set on his idea . ]
#1378 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ then he gets up and walks off . ]
#1384 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he comes straight up to our group . ]
#1390 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ kropp looks up at him with interest . ]
#1400 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but albert s no friend of his . ]
#1407 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ and do you know what you are ? ]
#1409 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ since when have we become so familiar ? ]
#1412 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he didn t expect this open hostility . ]
#1416 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but tjaden gets in ahead of him . ]
#1427 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the kaiser couldn t be more insulted . ]
#1431 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ will you obey my order or not ? ]
#1445 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ five days clink are five days rest . ]
#1450 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ there aren t any worries for him . ]
#1465 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ how many children had charles the bald ? ]
#1482 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ müller says thoughtfully what s the use ? ]
#1484 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ i consider that out of the question . ]
#1494 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ albert cleans his nails with a knife . ]
#1502 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ he makes a gesture toward the front . ]
#1509 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we are all utterly at a loss . ]
#1516 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but i can t even imagine anything . ]
#1537 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the orderly room shows signs of life . ]
#1538 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss seems to have stirred them up . ]
#1605 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ close arrest would have meant the cellar . ]
#1614 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we climb up on a munition wagon . ]
#1617 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ the shed belongs to a regimental headquarters . ]
#1632 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ but i haven t quite enough weight . ]
#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 . ]
#1762 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ in the interval it had been buried . ]
#1767 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ we must look out for our bread . ]
#1799 | T: 7 | I: 1 | [ ammunition and hand grenades become more plentiful . ]
#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 . ]
#39 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ that may do for you , he said . ]
#66 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ we ll soon show you , growled müller . ]
#458 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ so you may still , i assure him . ]
#511 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ his face is wet , he is crying . ]
#599 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ you get off scot free , of course . ]
#880 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ the tommies are firing already , says kropp . ]
#886 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ says müller , their clocks must be fast . ]
#1005 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ the mud flies high , fragments whizz past . ]
#1079 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ and it is not men , only horses . ]
#1398 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ kropp is nearest , so he favours him . ]
#1458 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ three of them are lieutenants , says müller . ]
#1462 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ says kropp reminiscently , and roars with laughter . ]
#1505 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ wonders müller , and even he is troubled . ]
#1611 | T: 7 | I: 2 | [ tjaden wins of course , the lucky wretch . ]
#28 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ and as the fourth , myself , paul baumer . ]
#261 | T: 7 | I: 3 | [ well , we could exchange , suggests müller again . ]
#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 . ]
#3 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are satisfied and at peace . ]
#15 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that s enough for a day . ]
#17 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the prussian is not so generous . ]
#37 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden grinned we are all here . ]
#48 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ suddenly a vision came over tjaden . ]
#52 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden seized him by the tunic . ]
#58 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden beamed what a bean feast ! ]
#69 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you might be generous for once . ]
#75 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we began to jostle the fellow . ]
#87 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he knew what we were thinking . ]
#94 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it doesn t cost you anything ! ]
#130 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ these are wonderfully care free hours . ]
#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 . ]
#152 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp asks anyone seen kemmerich lately ? ]
#166 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are mostly confounded little martinets . ]
#184 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he had only been knocked unconscious . ]
#216 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we look at his bed covering . ]
#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 . ]
#260 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ they are his most prized possessions . ]
#294 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we go back to the huts . ]
#302 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ what has kantorek written to you ? ]
#419 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i sit by kemmerich s bed . ]
#421 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ around us is a great commotion . ]
#431 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ wegeler has lost his right arm . ]
#441 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he beckons me to bend down . ]
#450 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ do they look after you properly ? ]
#463 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ for a while he lies still . ]
#468 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the skeleton is working itself through . ]
#469 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the eyes are already sunken in . ]
#477 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but he couldn t stand cigarettes . ]
#485 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there he lies now but why ? ]
#495 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is no use any more . ]
#516 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the tears run down his cheeks . ]
#537 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are by kemmerich s bed . ]
#569 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp nudges me seen the infants ? ]
#575 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kat asks one of the youngsters . ]
#589 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ that s what the prussians say . ]
#593 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ ginger was glad i took it . ]
#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 . ]
#693 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then the conversation turns to drill . ]
#695 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ burning midday in the barrack yard . ]
#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 . ]
#770 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he s coming to the front ! ]
#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 . ]
#861 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ of course kat has their number . ]
#873 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ only the young recruits are agitated . ]
#881 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the shelling can be heard distinctly . ]
#900 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ every time it is the same . ]
#924 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ an indigent looking wood receives us . ]
#925 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we pass by the soup kitchens . ]
#938 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ a column not men at all . ]
#944 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the burdens are awkward and heavy . ]
#949 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ another order cigarettes and pipes out . ]
#992 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it s good kat is there . ]
#1001 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the next lands fair amongst us . ]
#1016 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it s got someone pretty badly . ]
#1017 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ cries are heard between the explosions . ]
#1022 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ apparently there s an attack coming . ]
#1026 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it s all right this time . ]
#1033 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i understand at once gun shy . ]
#1063 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ müller has a pair of glasses . ]
#1071 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kat hits it in the air . ]
#1095 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he returns to it once again . ]
#1100 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ three o clock in the morning . ]
#1106 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i wish i were back home . ]
#1138 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i feel the arm all over . ]
#1154 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ before me gapes the shell hole . ]
#1160 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ i grab for my gas mask . ]
#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 . ]
#1213 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ where s it got you comrade ? ]
#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 . ]
#1245 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he has made up his mind . ]
#1291 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he will get some surprises here . ]
#1296 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ kropp and müller are amusing themselves . ]
#1312 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ you ve a wife and children . ]
#1320 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ how does it come about exactly ? ]
#1323 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ it is too much for haie . ]
#1355 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he s in love with it . ]
#1357 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ he s already sweating on it . ]
#1367 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ tjaden thinks of one thing only . ]
#1375 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ detering is sparing with his words . ]
#1376 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ but on this subject he speaks . ]
#1388 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then he marches up to us . ]
#1393 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ a couple of seconds go by . ]
#1468 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ when was the battle of zana ? ]
#1485 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we might take a special exam . ]
#1495 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we are surprised at this delicacy . ]
#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 . ]
#1576 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ and that s a mere nothing . ]
#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 . ]
#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 ? ]
#1699 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ then he says it s done . ]
#1705 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ we eat slowly and with gusto . ]
#1712 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there is still a lot left . ]
#1733 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ there are at least a hundred . ]
#1739 | T: 6 | I: 1 | [ the coffins are really for us . ]
#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 . ]
#221 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ he looks ghastly , yellow and wan . ]
#246 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ we have brought your things , franz . ]
#268 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ müller talks of doing so , too . ]
#433 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ besides , you will be going home . ]
#530 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ he says bed 26 , amputated thigh . ]
#733 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ that s the uniform , i suggest . ]
#847 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ that does not worry us , however . ]
#972 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ he hesitates , is blinded and falls . ]
#1165 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ someone plumps down behind me , another . ]
#1359 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ here a dram , there a pint . ]
#1541 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss follows him , thirsting for vengeance . ]
#1717 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ kat laughs , and simply says tjaden . ]
#1735 | T: 6 | I: 2 | [ they re for us , growls detering . ]
#758 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ true , growls kat , they always do . ]
#1571 | T: 6 | I: 3 | [ very good , says kropp , getting up . ]
#40 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but where are the others ? ]
#59 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that s all for us ! ]
#73 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ let s have it then . ]
#74 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are the second company . ]
#82 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he glanced into the dixie . ]
#85 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ cooked with meat and fat . ]
#86 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the lieutenant looked at us . ]
#91 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ serve out all the rations . ]
#92 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we can do with them . ]
#101 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ to day is wonderfully good . ]
#153 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he s up at st . ]
#157 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp pulls out a letter . ]
#247 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich signs with his hands . ]
#248 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ put them under the bed . ]
#259 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich doesn t want to . ]
#283 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kropp goes in with him . ]
#287 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they would fit me perfectly . ]
#305 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are the iron youth . ]
#306 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we all three smile bitterly . ]
#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 . ]
#395 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ have you lost your senses ? ]
#426 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they have amputated my leg . ]
#427 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he knows it too then . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#560 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ i give him the boots . ]
#578 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kat gives a knowing whistle . ]
#598 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then he turns to us . ]
#616 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ they go off to explore . ]
#629 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that s a bad business ! ]
#656 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he has thought of everything . ]
#659 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we climb out of bed . ]
#684 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the two begin to argue . ]
#694 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ a picture comes before me . ]
#717 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ lohne is a railway junction . ]
#816 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ immediately his voice was muffled . ]
#828 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we disappeared at full speed . ]
#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 . ]
#950 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we are near the line . ]
#982 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ once i fall fast asleep . ]
#995 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ some recruits jump up terrified . ]
#997 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ kat knocks out his pipe . ]
#998 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we re in for it . ]
#999 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ then it begins in earnest . ]
#1011 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ shoulders just like kemmerich s . ]
#1018 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ at last it grows quiet . ]
#1027 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he looks round him dazedly . ]
#1037 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ get along he goes off . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1107 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ home he means the huts . ]
#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 . ]
#1244 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ he stands still a moment . ]
#1280 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ and they re done for . ]
#1333 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ the picture is too good . ]
#1341 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ have you ever dug peat ? ]
#1373 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ asks müller like an inquisitor . ]
#1385 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ tjaden s face turns red . ]
#1403 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ tjaden now opens his eyes . ]
#1429 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ anything else you would like ? ]
#1440 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ do you think he will ? ]
#1444 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ that doesn t worry tjaden . ]
#1449 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ tjaden is a cheerful soul . ]
#1452 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ müller hasn t finished yet . ]
#1464 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ asked müller suddenly and earnestly . ]
#1474 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ how many inhabitants has melbourne ? ]
#1490 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it s a bit better . ]
#1496 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but it is merely pensiveness . ]
#1500 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ but we never had any . ]
#1547 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss glowers at us wrathfully . ]
#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 . ]
#1644 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ it s a bull dog . ]
#1658 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ quickly i let myself drop . ]
#1725 | T: 5 | I: 1 | [ we go to our hut . ]
#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 . ]
#154 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ joseph s , i tell him . ]
#293 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ done for , says müller emphatically . ]
#390 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ that means clink , he yelled . ]
#397 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ what will you do , anyway ? ]
#447 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ look here though , these fingers . ]
#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 . ]
#1058 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ shoot them , can t you ? ]
#1365 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ what would you do , tjaden ! ]
#1421 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ himmelstoss lets fly too , now . ]
#1546 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ no one knows , of course . ]
#1634 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ i fight desperately , but lord ! ]
#1706 | T: 5 | I: 2 | [ how does it taste , kat ? ]
#424 | T: 5 | I: 3 | [ next time , franz , i say . ]
#55 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden s chaps quivered . ]
#83 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the beans look good . ]
#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 . ]
#214 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich s head sinks . ]
#220 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the leg is amputated . ]
#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 . ]
#376 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ and the lie down ! ]
#420 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he is sinking steadily . ]
#432 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ that s much worse . ]
#434 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he looks at me . ]
#435 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ do you think so ? ]
#437 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ do you think so ? ]
#446 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he lifts one hand . ]
#455 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ that looks good too . ]
#487 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ let him not die ! ]
#488 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ my thoughts become confused . ]
#492 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the mouth moves slightly . ]
#514 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ will you sleep now ? ]
#515 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he does not answer . ]
#527 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ where is the doctor ? ]
#565 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ three reinforcements have arrived . ]
#579 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ bread made of turnips ? ]
#611 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ wire netting is hard . ]
#621 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ is there a what ? ]
#636 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the artilleryman grins scornfully . ]
#637 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ go ahead and explore . ]
#649 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he feels the bread . ]
#651 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat gives no explanation . ]
#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 . ]
#714 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we indulge in reminiscences . ]
#750 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ and nobody blames him . ]
#807 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ his belt buckle gleamed . ]
#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 . ]
#879 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the front is restless . ]
#885 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ what s got them ? ]
#889 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kat shrugs his shoulders . ]
#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 . ]
#994 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ one lands behind us . ]
#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 . ]
#1050 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ for god s sake ! ]
#1091 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ the cries are silenced . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#1301 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ clear out of this ! ]
#1326 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ you ve said it . ]
#1328 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ haie licks his lips . ]
#1342 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he retorts good naturedly . ]
#1406 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden lifts his head . ]
#1415 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss begins to boil . ]
#1424 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ tjaden waves him off . ]
#1447 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ urges the thoroughgoing müller . ]
#1453 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ he tackles kropp again . ]
#1469 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp wants to know . ]
#1477 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i ask albert hotly . ]
#1506 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp gives a shrug . ]
#1507 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i don t know . ]
#1510 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ what could we do ? ]
#1520 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ kropp feels it too . ]
#1531 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ we fly from ourselves . ]
#1548 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ you know very well . ]
#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 . ]
#1570 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ i expect an answer . ]
#1573 | T: 4 | I: 1 | [ those are anti aircraft . ]
#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 . ]
#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 . ]
#212 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ how goes it , franz ? ]
#453 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ franz , you must eat . ]
#510 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ he still breathes , lightly . ]
#1039 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ what s up , albert ? ]
#1044 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ wounded horses , says kat . ]
#1104 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ what s up , kat ? ]
#1305 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ get drunk , says albert . ]
#1399 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ well , you here too ? ]
#1442 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ sure to , i say . ]
#1613 | T: 4 | I: 2 | [ not bad , i agree . ]
#44 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he was staggered . ]
#54 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ ginger nodded again . ]
#68 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky got angry . ]
#97 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ you be hanged ! ]
#98 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ spat out ginger . ]
#249 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ müller does so . ]
#271 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is feverish . ]
#276 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he takes it . ]
#278 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i ask him . ]
#279 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is annoyed . ]
#285 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we wait outside . ]
#291 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ do you think ? ]
#296 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i am freezing . ]
#303 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ müller asks him . ]
#429 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is silent . ]
#452 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i get excited . ]
#456 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he turns away . ]
#490 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it grows dark . ]
#518 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ an hour passes . ]
#538 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is dead . ]
#562 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ they fit well . ]
#572 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ katczinsky joins us . ]
#585 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we follow curiously . ]
#590 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are surprised . ]
#592 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i ask him . ]
#635 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he strolls off . ]
#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 ! ]
#764 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ no one protests . ]
#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 ? ]
#878 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we all listen . ]
#1042 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the cries continued . ]
#1045 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it s unendurable . ]
#1047 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are pale . ]
#1048 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ detering stands up . ]
#1059 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ damn you again ! ]
#1072 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ are you mad ? ]
#1097 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we go back . ]
#1109 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is nervous . ]
#1117 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ yells somebody cover ! ]
#1132 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ it rains clods . ]
#1149 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ a wounded man ? ]
#1214 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ his eyes move . ]
#1254 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we go back . ]
#1287 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss has come . ]
#1304 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ and then what ? ]
#1307 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ kat becomes interested . ]
#1310 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ my old woman ! ]
#1332 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ everyone is silent . ]
#1334 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ our flesh creeps . ]
#1343 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ you try it . ]
#1379 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is worried . ]
#1404 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i do though . ]
#1408 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss is disconcerted . ]
#1457 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ that makes twelve . ]
#1466 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i interrupt gently . ]
#1486 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ that needs preparation . ]
#1527 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ he is right . ]
#1530 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we are fleeing . ]
#1532 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ from our life . ]
#1543 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ we get up . ]
#1544 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ where s tjaden ? ]
#1545 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ the sergeant puffs . ]
#1550 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ out with it ! ]
#1581 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ three days c . ]
#1591 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ is that right ? ]
#1592 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ bertink asks himmelstoss . ]
#1701 | T: 3 | I: 1 | [ i stir myself . ]
#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 . ]
#47 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ come on , begin ! ]
#627 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ yes , a few . ]
#632 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ where to , kat ? ]
#960 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ bombardment , says kat . ]
#1025 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ all over , kid ! ]
#1372 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ and you , detering ! ]
#1714 | T: 3 | I: 2 | [ sure , says he . ]
#53 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ and sausage ? ]
#56 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ tobacco too ? ]
#64 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ demanded katczinsky . ]
#84 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ ginger nodded . ]
#159 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we laugh . ]
#213 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks kropp . ]
#240 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich nods . ]
#258 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ müller repeats . ]
#270 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ kemmerich groans . ]
#273 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he refuses . ]
#292 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he asks . ]
#304 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he laughs . ]
#309 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ iron youth . ]
#312 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ but young ? ]
#394 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ bawled himmelstoss . ]
#436 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ of course . ]
#438 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he repeats . ]
#542 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i nod . ]
#570 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i nod . ]
#576 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he grimaces . ]
#582 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ have some ? ]
#597 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ get me ? ]
#622 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he laughs . ]
#626 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he spits . ]
#633 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i ask . ]
#763 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ simply amazing ! ]
#803 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ whispered kropp . ]
#858 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he nods . ]
#1040 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i ask . ]
#1051 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ shoot them . ]
#1083 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ at last ! ]
#1105 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ says kropp . ]
#1136 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ no pain . ]
#1217 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he groans . ]
#1302 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ growls kropp . ]
#1303 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ of course . ]
#1314 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ we laugh . ]
#1336 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ a pause . ]
#1340 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i say . ]
#1366 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks kropp . ]
#1430 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks tjaden . ]
#1441 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks tjaden . ]
#1475 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks müller . ]
#1499 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ himmelstoss too . ]
#1511 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ i ask . ]
#1558 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ he disappears . ]
#1595 | T: 2 | I: 1 | [ asks bertink . ]
#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 ? ]
#57 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ yes , everything . ]
#266 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ cheerio , franz . ]
#439 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ sure , franz . ]
#1583 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ , conjectures kat . ]
#1700 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ yes , kat . ]
#1709 | T: 2 | I: 2 | [ good , kat . ]
#72 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ good . ]
#310 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ youth ! ]
#313 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ youth ? ]
#802 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ alone ? ]
#804 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ alone . ]
#909 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ earth ! ]
#910 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ earth ! ]
#911 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ earth ! ]
#1004 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ barrage . ]
#1049 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ god ! ]
#1279 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ crack ! ]
#1325 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ exactly . ]
#1329 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ sure . ]
#1582 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ b . ]
#1707 | T: 1 | I: 1 | [ good ! ]
