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It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off\nbecause the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a\nmale, I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to\npuke all over yourself.\nThe part that got me was, there was a lady sitting next to me that cried all through\nthe goddam picture. The phonier it got, the more she cried. You'd have thought she did it\nbecause she was kindhearted as hell, but I was sitting right next to her, and she wasn't.\nShe had this little kid with her that was bored as hell and had to go to the bathroom, but\nshe wouldn't take him. She kept telling him to sit still and behave himself. She was about\nas kindhearted as a goddam wolf. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out\nover phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.\nI'm not kidding.\nAfter the movie was over, I started walking down to the Wicker Bar, where I was\nsupposed to meet old Carl Luce, and while I walked I sort of thought about war and all.\nThose war movies always do that to me. I don't think I could stand it if I had to go to war.\nI really couldn't. It wouldn't be too bad if they'd just take you out and shoot you or\nsomething, but you have to stay in the Army so goddam long. That's the whole trouble.\nMy brother D.B. was in the Army for four goddam years. He was in the war, too--he\nlanded on D-Day and all--but I really think he hated the Army worse than the war. I was\npractically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough\nand all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically. He hardly ever even came in the living\nroom. Later, when he went overseas and was in the war and all, he didn't get wounded or\nanything and he didn't have to shoot anybody. All he had to do was drive some cowboy\ngeneral around all day in a command car. He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to\nshoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was\npractically as full of bastards as the Nazis were. I remember Allie once asked him wasn't\nit sort of good that he was in the war because he was a writer and it gave him a lot to\nwrite about and all. He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who\nwas the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. Allie said Emily Dickinson. I\ndon't know too much about it myself, because I don't read much poetry, but I do know it'd\ndrive me crazy if I had to be in the Army and be with a bunch of guys like Ackley and\nStradlater and old Maurice all the time, marching with them and all. I was in the Boy\nScouts once, for about a week, and I couldn't even stand looking at the back of the guy's\nneck in front of me. They kept telling you to look at the back of the guy's neck in front of\nyou. I swear if there's ever another war, they better just take me out and stick me in front\nof a firing squad. I wouldn't object. What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so\nmuch, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it\nwas so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant\nHenry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the\nArmy and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. 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