I was summoned to the War... «Brideshead Revisited»
martinalee18 октября 2023I was summoned to the War Office, interviewed, and put on a list in case of emergency; Cordelia also, on another list; lists were becoming part of our lives once more, as they had been at school. Everything was being got ready for the coming ‘Emergency’. No one in that dark office spoke the word ‘war’; it was taboo; we should be called for if there was ‘an emergency’ — not in case of strife, an act of human will; nothing so clear and simple as wrath or retribution; an emergency — something coming out of the waters, a monster with sightless face and thrashing tail thrown up from the depths.
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