473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
The History of Literature
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The Importance of Grammar
The major who had been the great fencer did not believe in bravery and spent much time while we sat in machines correcting my grammar. I was never ashamed of the ribbons though and sometimes after the cocktail hour I would imagine myself having done all the things they had done to get their medals. They, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart. But I stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front because he would never know now how he would have turned out either. He said: 'I am utterly unable to resign myself'
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