Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

To protect my homeland, I too would fight and die. But it made no sense to me at all to sacrifice my one and only life for the sake of this desolate patch of soil from which no shaft of grain would ever spring--from The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami.

I wonder if any troops in Iraq feel like this Jap soldier?

There is no wonder... so it is

I think I am buying stock in the artificial limb industry.

i'm glad to hear you like murakami!