American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
He was wounded in the attack in April right near where he was always
going to visit his wife and he saw the church tower and then he was
immediately evacuated to an american hospital where every one was very
American and very kind and Miss Bell tried to talk french to him and
amuse him but overcome with her difficulties with the french language
she retired which made him say she was very nice and these stories that
he told to us you told to Sister Cecile which did not please her and she
said we must come and hear from every one else the stories they all told
of the kindness they had received in the American hospital before they
came to her and she said to them what did the major do, and they said he
played ball. He did. And you too and all of them said, no sister but you
were wounded in an attack. We were both wounded, said the soldier.
Reflections.
Reflections on Sister Cecile lead us to believe that she did not reflect
about Friday but about the book in which she often wrote. We were
curious. She wrote this note. This is it. Name life, wife, deed, wound,
weather, food, devotion, and expression.
What did he ask for.
Why I don't know.
Why don't you know.
I don't call that making literature at all.
What has he asked for.
I call literature telling a story as it happens.
Facts of life make literature.
I can always feel rightly about that.
We obtained beads for him and our own pictures in it.
Dear pictures of us.
We can tell anything over.
We gave him colored beads and he made them with paper that he bought
himself of two different colors into frames that we sent with our
pictures to our cousins and our papas in America.
Can we say it.
We cannot.
Now.
Then he told us about his wife and his child.
He does not say anything about them now.
Some immediate provision was necessary.
We said in English these are the facts which we are bringing to your
memory.
What is capitol.
He told us of bead buttons and black and white. He answered her back
very brightly.
He is a man.
Reflections.
What were the reflections.
Have we undertaken too much.
What is the name of his wife.
They were lost. We did not look forward. We did not think much. How long
would he stay. Our reflections really came later.
The first thing we heard from her was that the woman was not staying and
had left her new address.
How do you do.
We did not look her up.
Her mother and her mother.
Can you think why Marguerite did not wish Jenny Picard to remain longer.
Because she stole.
Not really.
Yes indeed. Little things.
This will never do.
And then.
I said we must go to see her.
And you said we will see.
One night, no one day she called with her mother.
Who was very good looking.
She was very good looking.
And the little boy.
Can you think of the little boy.
They both said that they were not polite.
But they were.
Reflections can come already.
We believed her reasons were real reasons.
Who is always right.
Not she nor her eleven sisters.
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