Dia 30, 21 de março. As misérias da guerra

People behave in unanticipated ways; there is as much base behavior as heroism. Mr. Englund discussed the soldiers who actively tried to catch a venereal disease from prostitutes as a way to evade service at the front. “The most grotesque expression of this can be seen in the trade of gonococcal pus, which soldiers buy and smear into their genitals in the hope of ending up in hospital,” he writes. “Those who are really desperate rub it into their eyes, which often results in lifelong blindness.”

Excerto de 'Mass Slaughter on a Personal Level', crítica (review) de A Beleza e a Dor da Guerra, de Peter Englund, por Dwight Garner (10 nov. 2011) no NYTimesre

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