JOYS IN RETROSPECT
EXPERIENCES DURING WARTIME. Those who have been through really horrific experiences—and there are many of them today—have probably small desire to recall them; such things come back often enough unbidden, says “The Times.” Lesser dangers and discomforts are in a different category. It is admittedly hard to draw the line, but the average person would wish to have been missed by a bomb and by not too great, a margin. He may even like to remember the i swish and the crash of it, and. if both ' grow in time a little louder, that is an amiable weakness. But it is essential that these joys should be purely retrospective. Nobody wants his bomb to come as near again. These sentiments are purely romantic. Everyone in reading an account of a coach drive has wished at some time that he had experienced it, whether the chilly stuffiness of the insides or the more obviously noble endurance of the outsides, wrapped in shawls and benjamins. burying their noses in their greatcoat collars against a shower of sleet. Yet if the clock were magically put back for a few hours not many of us would push romance so far as to embrace our chance. If we could be sure of surviving to talk about it afterwards round the fire how wonderfully brave we should all be!
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6
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226JOYS IN RETROSPECT Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6
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