📚Marginalia

#️⃣War

war is beautiful

War was beautiful, when you had the good fortune not to be engaged in it. It was sound and fury, colour and movement, a massed assault on the senses. It was bravura and theatrical, something that made you gasp. It was thrilling and romantic, when you were a spectator.

ashes drift afar

A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far and settle slowly.