Dark Ballads : Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel: Last Post, 1939

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Friday, June 27, 2008

Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel: Last Post, 1939

September 1, 1939 The first words Sansparole spoke since the Great War had come, were also his last words. I didn't understand it, then. There was nothing to see on the latest watercolor painting he had made, except a black brick wall. How could this blackest black be soothing and reassuring? How... Sign in to see full entry.

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