In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.


The Tin Drum (1959) bk. 1 'Moth and Light Bulb', translated by Ralph Manheim


In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to ...

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to ...

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to ...

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to ...