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...fascinating distraction. The incessant diving, ogling of manometers and Papenberg gauges, and the flooding and blowing of ballast tanks run like a litany throughout the book. Buchheim employs some tricky literary gimbals to keep himself balanced between feelings of revulsion and respect for the men aboard this stifling tunnel of dead metal. He is adept at flattening his prose in the manner of much postwar German writing, creating an ironic though pat Götterdaämerung or adding a horrific touch of 1920s expressionism...
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...revealing as ever. Although the war effort has failed, those who supported that effort will continue to lay the failure at the doorstep of every variable involved except their own gross miscalculations and erroneous assumptions. There never was anything but darkness at either end of the tunnel...
...bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...
HOLE 4: 220 yds., par three (average score: 3.27). This hole often makes you think you're playing in a wind tunnel because of tall trees behind and alongside of the green. The wind is usually against you, but it shifts quickly, and you've got to watch it like a sparrow hawk. Once when I was paired with Hogan, Ben hit a full drive into a gale and he was short. Moments later when I hit, my drive carried the green and almost landed out of play in the azaleas behind. The wind had died. It takes...