@@@@@"They done stripped 'em all of souvenirs,"
@@@@@"They done stripped 'em all of souvenirs," he said
Gallagher swayed back and forth drunkenly"Who did? Who the fug did? Wilson, you're a goddam liarYou stole all the souvenirs
Wilson ignored him"It's a damn shame's all Ah can say when a bunch of men like us is risking our ass for a whole goddam week, and they ain't even any souvenirs left His voice trailed off bitterly"Goddam shame," he repeated to himself
Martinez prodded with his shoe the genitals of the charred corpseThe genitals collapsed with a small crispy sound as if he had stuck his finger into a coil of cigar ashHe felt a trace of pleasure, which was lost in the gloominess he now feltThis liquor had made him despondent and the walk had intensified this; he felt no horror nor any fear at the bodies; his own terror of death had no relation to the smells and the cruel shapes into which physical death could force a bodyHe could not have said why he was gloomy, but he had to fasten it upon somethingHe resented the money he had spent for the whisky, and for the past half hour he had been trying to calculate how long it would take him to replace that money with his pay
Red leaned against the half-trackHe was feeling dizzy and he extended his arm over the metal tread guardHis hand closed on a piece of pulpy fruit and he dropped it hastilyThe fruit was red and looked like a pear, but he had never seen anything like it before"Where the hell this come from?" he asked thickly
"That's Jap food," Wilson said
"Where'd they get it?"
"Ah don' know," Wilson shruggedA touch of fear penetrated through Red's drunkennessFor an instant he thought of Hennessey"Well, Wilson, where the fug is the souvenirs?" he asked bitterly
"Men, you jus' got to follow me," Wilson