Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.

LRRP planned to become “career” Army, i.e., a lifer, you kept that quiet. Basic LRRP theology said the Army sucked and that philosophy kept one from going crazy because, at the bottom, nothing about the war seemed to make sense anyway. The LRRP's considered a lifer a loser. Being a lifer implied one had no other options available. Every LRRP had his own stories about back home: about family, friends, lovers, opportunities, dreams and a future. These were mostly fantasy, but […]

Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, . . . was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.

our annual repair to the mountains