A Diary and the Fear of Death
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A Diary and the Fear of Death
I felt it my duty as the adjutant and
it was dumb, dumb, too to sort of keep
a diary of what was happening and it was a very
frank diary and a very stupid diary.
And one day I was writing I guess in the diary...
the camp commandant and somebody else came
swooping in and said, "Ah, we'll take this!"
So I decided that I was going to be
executed that afternoon, I mean there was
absolutely no question in my mind that I was
going to be executed and it served me right
for being so stupid.
Now there was another guy in the camp,
an Oxford graduate, who taught at the
Diocesan boys school and he kept a diary in Greek
so he was fairly confident that he would be
alright but I kept mine in English.
Anyhow, I was absolutely positive that
that was it and I had a very
uncomfortable day and
a rather uncomfortable night
and the next day nothing happened.
And after a couple of days,
it dawned on me that he's not going to read it.
He's just going to throw it into some
desk or some warehouse or somewhere and
obviously thatss what happened because
nothing ever happened.
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