Remembrance of things past

Any soldier will tell you that, in the heat of a fight, sights and sounds imprint themselves on your memory and stay vivid for fifty years . . . but you lose all sense of time.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.337, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Unpleasant sight

…I saw the most unpleasant sight I know, which is my own blood…

Royal Flash, p.124, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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