Thursday 18 July 2013

I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all

No one I met at this time - doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients - failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

G. Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938), 153-4

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