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That we jump up every morning and say, 'long live France,'
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'long live Germany,' 'long live Italy'?"--
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depending on your case-- and jump over the top heroically in
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order to get to, you name the city,
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Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Saint Quentin, wherever you want to talk about it.
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And, so, there's discontinuity, the soldiers when they go on leave,
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when the soldiers go back to the whorehouses of Montmartre,
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or the bars of Montparnasse, or anywhere else, or back to Lyon,
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or Rennes, or anywhere you want, it's impossible for them to even
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discuss what has happened.
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And, indeed, one of the interesting things about this whole thing is
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lots of the really great literature after the war,