17h 1min, feb 8, 1945 y - Caine Mutiny timeline passage five
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“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime.” (Wouk, 510)
"Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more." (Wouk, 529)
“ The fact is, my sweet darling, that this sex attraction has almost ruined our lives, because in my idiotic, immature, snobbish mind it came to seem a trap. A lot of things had happened to me over the past 5 months, and the sum total of everything is that I have grown up 5 years in that time, and can now safely say that I am out of my adolescent fog, however far I am from being a man. I can’t understand how or why you came to care for me, being stronger, wiser prettier, possessed of more earning power, and in every way better than I am. Maybe Princeton chatter helped, in which case thank god for Princeton. I know that the snob idea of marrying into a quote good family--large crimson unquote--can mean nothing to you. Whatever it is, your loving me is fantastic luck. (Wouk, 516)
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