The Germans were false, we were false, everybody was false." "And not you ?" asked Aaron shrewishly.
"There was a wakeful, self-possessed bit of me which knew that the war and all that horrible movement was false for me.

And so I wasn't going to be dragged in.

The Germans could have shot my mother or me or what they liked: I wouldn't have joined the WAR.

I would like to kill my enemy.

But become a bit of that huge obscene machine they called the war, that I never would, no, not if I died ten deaths and had eleven mothers violated.