In that hole, the rhetoric of the classroom died. There was no "enemy." There was only a man who loved, a man who breathed, and a man who was now still. Paul realized then that the war wasn't fought against people, but against the very souls of those trapped within it.
"Keep your head down, Paul," Kat whispered. Katczinsky, the veteran cobbler who had become their father-figure in the mud, was scavenging for a piece of bread. "The French snipers are bored today. That makes them dangerous." 1m.w3st3n.n1chts.n3u3z.2022.hdrip.720p.subesp.mp4
Paul leaned against the trench wall. The earth here was alive. It vibrated with the distant thud of heavy artillery—the "drums of death" that never truly stopped. He looked at his hands. They were no longer the hands of a poet or a student; the skin was cracked, the nails black with soil that seemed to have bonded to his DNA. In that hole, the rhetoric of the classroom died