Thomas Wolfe Quote

By Christmas, with fair luck, he might be eligible for service in khaki: by Spring, if God was good, all the proud privileges of trench-lice, mustard gas, spattered brains, punctured lungs, ripped guts, asphyxiation, mud and gangrene, might be his.

Eugene Gant contemplating entering the service in World War I - Look Homeward, Angel (1929)