《丧钟为谁而鸣》海明威
当你还是孩子的时候参加战争,会有一种幻想,其他人会死,而你不会……
然后,当你第一次受重伤,那种错觉就会烟消云散。
其实海明威这段话并非出自《丧钟为谁而鸣》,而是来自他在1942年为战争故事集《 Men at War》的所作的序。
“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it. ”