Nothing Quite So Stable As A Corpse.
Lynn Swearingen
Very reminiscent of World War II’s German London Blitz – I’m sure they hoped to get a few “Enemy Combatants” or was it just to strike terror in the populace? The Blitz certainly made a mark in history according to War-Correspondent Ernie Pyle:
There was something inspiring just in the awful savagery of it.
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Later on I borrowed a tin hat and went out among the fires. That was exciting too; but the thing I shall always remember above all the other things in my life is the monstrous loveliness of that one single view of London on a holiday night – London stabbed with great fires, shaken by explosions, its dark regions along the Thames sparkling with the pin points of white-hot bombs, all of it roofed over with a ceiling of pink that held bursting shells, balloons, flares and the grind of vicious engines. And in yourself the excitement and anticipation and wonder in your soul that this could be happening at all.
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