Semezdin Mehmedinovic quotes:

A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.

In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

When a shell falls, books act like a net, trapping the shrapnel within them.

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.