A diary without dates.

  • Bagnold, Enid.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: A diary without dates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    without seeing the ring of riders, without thinking, perhaps, of the dairyman and of the other dairymen. The butterflies do not care for noise. When, standing beside the cabbage-patch, the bugler blows the dinner-bugle, they race in a cloud to the far corner and hover there until the last note is sounded. I think it is I who am wrong when I consider the men as citizens, as persons of responsi- bility, and the Sister right when she says the boys. Taken from their women, from their establishments, as monks or boys or even sheep are housed, they do not want, perhaps, to be reminded of an existence to which they cannot return; until a limb is off, or the war ends. To what a point they leave their private lives behind them ! To what a point their lives are suspended. . . . On the whole, I find that in hospital they do not think of the future or of the past, nor think much at all. As far as life and growth goes it is a hold-up ! There is really not much to hope for ; the leave is so short, the home-life so disrupted that it cannot be taken up with content.