Three times Jan had been called to the colours.... : Quote by Günter Grass

“ Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition..when every male who could stand halfway erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change in posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal ”

Günter Grass
  • From : The Tin Drum
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