"Wars are perfect places for people with a lot to forget. They can fill you with such terror for your life and such horror at what people can do to one another that they strip your mind of what came before ........... War can also make you fall in love, with bullets spraying at any time, nothing to eat tonight, or to prevent you from freezing by dawn, you take a narrow view of things.... When nothing is safe, the future becomes a vague promise and the past a vaguer memory. Even when you are outside direct danger, life turns unpredictable. Nothing is secure and who you were may disappear. If you can reach over and find someone like yourself, someone equally desperate to escape the past and you can steal a few days and nights with such a person in a city like Rome, you won't want to ever let go....
3/17/08
MIKE O'CONNOR quote from CRISIS PURSUED BY DISASTER, FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY CATASTROPHE
page 230...
"Wars are perfect places for people with a lot to forget. They can fill you with such terror for your life and such horror at what people can do to one another that they strip your mind of what came before ........... War can also make you fall in love, with bullets spraying at any time, nothing to eat tonight, or to prevent you from freezing by dawn, you take a narrow view of things.... When nothing is safe, the future becomes a vague promise and the past a vaguer memory. Even when you are outside direct danger, life turns unpredictable. Nothing is secure and who you were may disappear. If you can reach over and find someone like yourself, someone equally desperate to escape the past and you can steal a few days and nights with such a person in a city like Rome, you won't want to ever let go....
"Wars are perfect places for people with a lot to forget. They can fill you with such terror for your life and such horror at what people can do to one another that they strip your mind of what came before ........... War can also make you fall in love, with bullets spraying at any time, nothing to eat tonight, or to prevent you from freezing by dawn, you take a narrow view of things.... When nothing is safe, the future becomes a vague promise and the past a vaguer memory. Even when you are outside direct danger, life turns unpredictable. Nothing is secure and who you were may disappear. If you can reach over and find someone like yourself, someone equally desperate to escape the past and you can steal a few days and nights with such a person in a city like Rome, you won't want to ever let go....
