![]() ![]() ![]() But not that other infinitely more important reality: the fact that they knew that even walking down that street, that evening, they knew what was coming-not the details, nor the timing perhaps, but they knew, all four of them, that their world, and in all probability they themselves, would not survive the war. The realities of the bombs and torpedoes and the dying was easy enough to imagine-mere events, after all, recorded in thousands of films and photographs and comic books. “Which was more real, their dirty bathtubs and shared bedrooms or that other reality, waiting one week away? Most of all he would despair because he could not imagine what it would be like to confront the most real of their realities: that within two years three of the four of them would be dead. ![]()
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