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- 3365 of a firing squad. I wouldn't object. What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so
3366 much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it
3367 was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant
3368 Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the
3369 Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. I mean, for instance, I don't
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3370 see how he could like a phony book like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or
3371 that other one he's so crazy about, The Great Gatsby. D.B. got sore when I said that, and
3372 said I was too young and all to appreciate it, but I don't think so. I told him I liked Ring
3373 Lardner and The Great Gatsby and all. I did, too. I was crazy about The Great Gatsby.
3374 Old Gatsby. Old sport. That killed me. Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic
3375 bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll
3376 volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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