The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O'Brien
You just don't know. You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don't know... Sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country - the dirt, the death - I just want to swallow it and have it there inside me. That's how I feel. It's like this appetite. I get scared sometimes - lots of times - but it's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can't feel like that anywhere else.🏁
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You just don't know. You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don't know... Sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country - the dirt, the death - I just want to swallow it and have it there inside me. That's how I feel. It's like this appetite. I get scared sometimes - lots of times - but it's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can't feel like that anywhere else.🏁