![]() ![]() The clerks, the kings, the thinkers they talked, and with their talking ran the world. ![]() Intrigues and machinations… Heavy favouritism… Boozing, gambling, fornicating, brawling… Those are the ways of the army life… All down the line…Īnd everyone standing on a higher step of hierarchy is considered as a kind of antagonist… ![]() No man could swallow so much gaseous privilege and authority without having his guts inflated. Warden had a theory about officers: Being an officer would make a sinner out of Christ himself. Two aging men confabing with each other, leaders of men, patting each other on the back and looking frantically about to find someone to lead. The army dislikes individuality… The army is all for uniformity… The army loves subordination… ![]() But you never saw a pineapple turn itself into a grapefruit, did you? The war is already at the door… From Here to Eternity is an unflattering account of the army life on the threshold of the war… All down the line…ĭid a pineapple enjoy its life? or did it maybe get sick of being trimmed like seven thousand other pineapples? fed the same fertilizer as seven thousand other pineapples? standing till death did them part in the same rank and file like seven thousand other pineapples? You never knew. ![]()
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