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<p>[Page 78]</p><p>in great strides, which doesn&#39;t make me any happier. And in the camp, everything is as dour as always. The stenography lessons have petered out, the weather is autumn-like and rather cold lately. And

<p>[Page 86]</p><p>it&#39;s still bitingly cold. It&#39;s a factor that pushes the overall mood, which is already down because of the bad news from the front (Russian advances, etc, etc), right below zero.

<p>[Page 72]</p><p>Hope [indecipherable] Men talk and dream much of a better future; you see them chase a happy, golden ideal. The world turns old and turns young again, and still men hope for better days. Hope escorts men into

<p>[Page 97]</p><p>Although we do have a fair share of deserters and slackers in our motley crew of people, having been collected from various places in the East like Australia, Hong Kong, Tsingtan, Singapore, Saigon, Sumatra,

<p>[Page 92]</p><p>grammar, etc, but mostly I was just happy to get the drift of it. But this, too, shall change. I&#39;m socialising quite nicely with Stegmann, Lembach, Hayer and Huber nowadays, whereas Jerssen is becoming

<p>[Page 74]</p><p>because at times, I couldn&#39;t see from either the right or the left eye. Now the spook is over and all seems to be fine, but I hope the writing doesn&#39;t harm me! Like Ariadne&#39;s thread,

<p>[Page 183]</p><p>we already have people here who are certified lunatics! In Liverpool, they say, some 30 men have already been confined to the madhouse. At the moment, I&#39;m feeling a bit better, the mood is good and

<p>[Page 187]</p><p>At the moment I&#39;m studying: Professor Preuss: &quot;The coconut and its cultivation&quot;. Jerssen has borrowed it and so I always have to wait until he puts it down for a moment. (3pm)

<p>[Page 84]</p><p>a walk with Stegmann. After lunch and the usual roll of the coffee dice, I slept until 3pm and then went for a solitary walk until 5pm. The most spectacular sunset, of a richness of colours like hardly ever

<p>[Page 82]</p><p>and New Guinea, until I fall asleep. &nbsp;&euro;&ldquo; If it rains again tomorrow, the day will pass the same way, if it doesn&#39;t rain, it will pass similarly. (about