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  • To enlist. To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life – that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing – I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.

    Speaker: John Knowles
    Source: A Separate Peace
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:06 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: character, war
    Shared By: 2 members; sdressfancy, Puck