Carolina QuotesBy Christmas, with fair luck, he might be eligible for service in khaki: by Spring, if God was good, all the proud privileges of trench-lice, mustard gas, spattered brains, punctured lungs, ripped guts, asphyxiation, mud and gangrene, might be his.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
Source
Eugene Gant contemplating entering the service in World War I — p. 434
- work
- Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
- year
- 1929
- locator
- p. 434
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