Capitolo 33
Paris. I happened to be in the station when a train was going out.
Nothing goes on anchor the line but men that their regiments connect. Them
you/he/she was packaged in as sardines. There were no uniforms--only a crowd of
men--men in shirts, men in patched jackets, well-dressed men--no
distinction of class; and on the base the women and their children
you/he/she was going away. There was not any laughter, none of the gayety with what
you/he/she has scolded so often this run--but neither it was there some torn wounds. As
the crowded train started to stir, naked heads were you thrust out of windows,
hats ripple, and a great cries of the of "Alive from which to France" you/he/she has been answered
playing the pipe the voices of children and the smothered voices of women--"Alive
the Armee"; and when the train was out of sight the women they took the
children from the hand, and it quietly climbed the hill.
Since then on August 4 that all of our intersections have been protected, everybody
our platform checks closed, and it also protected--it protected from men which only
signal to be soldiers is a beret and a gun, men in shirts with a
badge of mobilization on their arm lefts, often in patched pantaloni and
sabots, with austere faces and definite eyes and one thought--"The
country is in danger."
There is only an intersection on my house on which commands the valley
or you side, and leads to a small small village on the nationale of the run of routing from
Couilly to Meaux, arid you/he/she has called "You Demi-Lune"--because "Crescent" me
doesn't know. It was there, the 6, that I saw, for the first time,
an armed barricade. The gate to the platform to cross had been open
you leave that a cart footsteps, when an automobile threw through Saint-Germain, what
it is on the other side of the footstep. The watch raised its bayonet in the
you air, to command the car to stay himself/herself/themselves and to show his/her papers, but it flew from him
and it threw on the hill. The poor watch--it was his/her first experience of