It Is Easy To Be Dead

Text of the day: “England! I am sick of the sound of the word. In training to fight for England, I am training to fight for deliberate hypocrisy, that terrible middle-class sloth of outlook. Yet we write down Germany as ‘Huns’. I think that after the war all brave men will renounce their country and confess that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” (Charlie in Neil McPherson’s It Is Easy To Be Dead)

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