sovay: (PJ Harvey: crow)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-11-11 04:46 pm

In my body is a broken strobe light

Such is the peculiar mentality of men under severe and continual nervous strain. But there, we are not what we were. We are not individuals that walked and talked and went about our lawful occasions in peacetime. Those persons have faded out of existence . . . We regard ourselves rather as detached personalities. Sapper Martin is not the respectable law-abiding Mr Martin of pre-war days. They are quite distinct personalities and are apt to eye each other rather insolently at times.

Albert John "Jack" Martin, 24 August 1918