5th August
High time, therefore, that my emergency, air-raid bag should...be demobilized[....] [T]he sides burst gladly apart, gaping wide, reminding me how difficult it was in 1940 to thrust inside every single thing that might be needed....
Alter the tense: That might have been needed.
Month after month and year after year, until April, 1945, as though watching a slow-motion film, we had to possess our souls in patience. To possess one's soul in anything is not so easy as it sounds.
GB Stern, Benefits Forgot (1949)
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