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... the dead ... hiss, belch .... The gases in them make noises.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 126.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
We sharpen their ears to the malicious, hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells ... they must pick them out from the general din by their insect-like hum...
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 134.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
After I have been startled a couple of times in the street by the screaming of the tram-cars, which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one...
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 167.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
The prisoners sing a chorale, they sing in parts, and it sounds almost as if there were no voices, but an organ far away on the moor .... He plays mostly folk-songs and the others hum with him. They are like a country of dark hills that sing far down under the ground. The sound of the violin stands like a slender girl above it and is clear and alone. The voices cease and the violin continues alone...
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1929, p. 196.
PLACE: Europe
TIME: First World War (1914 - 1918)
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