and I: But maybe it was loaded it happens sometimes You see it every morning in the papers

Then I must buy the paper tomorrow there’ll be something interesting to read at least

I thought that you were interested in this war I even thought you were actually involved

Not at four in the morning on horseback and in the rain

You think it’s four in the morning You think it’ll ever be daylight again?

Isn’t that the dawn over there What is it that’s a little lighter over there on the right

Where? Where do you see something in this soup

Every once in a while you see a lighter place

It might be water Maybe it’s the Meuse

Or the Rhine

Or the Elbe

No not the Elbe we would have known

Then what is it?

Some river what difference does it make

I wonder what time it is

What difference does it make

We must have been in this car for three days

Then let’s say it’s the Elbe