GRGR(24): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

[Jeremy Osner]

one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning wrote:

>         "I've been there. You haven't."
>
> Why doesn't the time between matter? And what are these points of
> decision? Apparently the ones where a person must decide whether or
> not to die for History. [Does the System really offer a choice?]

This passage reminded me of some war books I have read (don't remember which
ones) which put forward ideas along the lines of, you only experience true
(for lack of a better term) manhood in the trenches. Tchitcherine, who has
been in battle, has an insight into the nature of his existence not available
to Wimpe, a civilian. Can't remember which specifically, but I think more
than one story has that idea in it.

Jeremy