The Things They Carried
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Neko2021-08-04对战争进行推断就像对和平进行推断一样。几乎一切都是真的，又都不是真的。说到底，或许战争就是死亡的另一个名字，然而，任何一个士兵都会告诉你一如果他讲真话的话接近死就是接近生。枪战之后，总有那种巨大的活着的快感。树木、草、土壤乃至一切一你周围的事物都完全地活着，你在他们中间，这种活着使你颤抖。你会强烈地、脱胎换骨般认识到还活着的自己的感觉一真实的你自己，你想要成为的人，然后用意念的力量成为那个人。在邪恶之中，你想成为一个好人。你想要正派、正义、谦恭有礼和人类和谐，以及那些过去你从来不知道你想要的东西。说来也怪，就像死后重生那样，你认识了什么才是有价值的。你青春焕发，好像是第一次，你爱上了你自身和世界上拥有的一切最美好的东西。黄昏时分，你坐在自己的散兵坑旁边，注视着一条变成粉红色的宽阔河流和远处的绵延山脉。尽管早晨你必须瞠过这条河，进入山区，做一些可怕的事情，或许会死，即使这样，你还在品味河面上的美妙色彩，你对太阳西下感到不解和敬畏，你充满了一种冷酷无情、令人痛苦的爱心：世界会是怎样？
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Neko2021-08-04你会如何概括呢？战争是地狱一很明显，这个定义还不及它全部意义的一半，因为争还是神秘、恐惧、冒险、勇气、探、神圣、怜悯、绝望、望和爱情。战争是杀气腾腾的，战争是好玩的，战争令人毛骨悚然，战争是苦役，战争使你成为男人，战争使你死去……真理是相互矛盾的，例如，说战争是荒诞的，这一点是可以有异议的。实际上，战争也是美。就其恐惧而论，你束手无策，只能目瞪口地看着丑陋的战斗威严。你盯着一枚枚曳光弹在夜幕中穿行，像灿烂的红丝带。你蜷曲着身子在执行伏击任务，一轮冷淡、漠然的明月悬挂在稻田的上空。你赞赏运动中的士兵们那优美协调的身姿，声音、形状和比例的和谐，武装直升机发射的大片金属火光，白色的磷光，凝固燃烧弹的紫橙色亮光，火箭弹的红光……确实，战争听起来不悦耳，战争令人惊讶，战争满足视觉，战争指挥你，你恨它一一但是，你的眼睛不恨。就像杀手般的一场森林大火和显微镜下的癌症一样，任何战役或空袭，或炮兵拦阻射击，都具有完全不顾及道德的那种美学上的纯粹一那是一种强有力的、无情的美一一个真实的战争故事会告诉你这方面的事实，尽管事实是丑陋的。
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[已注销]2015-11-11...In part he was grieving for Ted Lavender, but mostly it was for Martha, and for himself, because she belonged to another world, which was not quite real, and because she was a junior at Mount Sebastian College in new Jersey, a poet and a virgin and uninvolved, and because he realized she did not love him and never would.
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[已注销]2015-11-11They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct, They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself--Vietnam, the place, the soil--a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
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iDeu2011-11-04And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
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iDeu2011-11-04I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth.