The Curse Mountain - Chapter 1 (1112 hits)
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Submitted by Avals (View user info) at 2005-02-14 15:14:31 EST
Chapter 1 / He'll Never
A sort of game - You throw out the name of a friend who was killed, and everyone has to complete the sentence "He'll never"
What are you, an idiot? How can you not know that game? You can't not know that game. It's called, "He'll never", and that's the game everyone plays when a friend gets killed. You throw out his name, and everyone has to complete the sentence; to say what he'll never do anymore. Here's an example:
Yotam will never know if his sister gets married; Yotam will never take his little brother to the movies; Yotam will never know what it feels like to rent a place with his girlfriend; Yotam will never know what it's like to go with her to 'Zara' when the new winter clothes collection comes out. He'll never know what it's like to go to 'Roladin' in the middle of the night - in the rain - because she suddenly wants a doughnut; and you are after all an idiot - never could say no to her. And here I am, thinking how lucky I am that I got to go get doughnuts in the middle of the night.
Yotam will never get to listen to the new Sarit Hadad CD; Yotam will never find out how Asulin got stuck with the ugliest girl in Naharia, and after making fun of us all, to boot; Yotam will never know how fucked it is when you can't get it up; he'll never know how great it is, when mom's so proud of you the day you're accepted to university; he'll never attend his grandfather's funeral; never get to go with us to South America; never get to see 'The Poel' bring home the cup; never know the laughs we had when they caught Chababi with Biton's girlfriend. There's a lot of stuff Yotam will never know now.
Yotam will never know what it's like to cheat on his girlfriend with the hottest chick in the state, and realize - too late - that it just wasn't worth it; and the girlfriend's leaving. He'll never know how much that hurts.
Yotam will never know what it's like to sit on the lawn with a little kid - all his own - and tell him how larger than life we were in the ambushes in Lebanon.
Yotam will never know which song they played on his grave, when he died. A song by Eyal Golan - an innovation, in 'Eastern' style - became his song. Everyone who gets killed has a song, which the friends carry with them after the funeral. Everyone keeps listening to it over and over again for months after; no one gets tired of it.
Yotam will never know how Huri the medic cried over his body; wouldn't let go; crumbled; fell apart. Like a baby he cried. Yotam will never know how Eyal and I spent a whole day walking around the channels and slopes - looking for his missing head. When the booby-trap went off, the head was hit and rolled off, apparently to Litni. We didn't want to believe it went all the way down to the river, but that's probably what happened, and eventually we gave up looking. Nothing you can do. And I kneeled in the thick smoke and held his body with two hands - a body with no head. He'll never know. And the fire kept burning around us, and we kept shooting and shooting and shooting every which way, like that would make us feel any better. And how broken everyone was - Yotam will never know. There's no way he'll ever know.
Yotam will never smell the sweet scent of sweat mingled with that gentle shampoo during a night of wild sex and hugging - like we all got the week we came back from Lebanon; when it was all over. Yotam will never even know we came out of Lebanon.
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Submitted by charminglybeef (user info) at 2006-02-16 04:23:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
excellent.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-12-10 18:40:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-03-15 14:42:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn good...I'm off to read the rest.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-02-18 07:30:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought it was really interesting, and sad.
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:00:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn!
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:49:35 EST (#)
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Either keep posting these, or just send me the completed text; please. I'd love to read the rest.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2005-02-15 15:23:04 EST (#)
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To clarify:
'The Curse Mountain' might be considered a somewhat different kind of service diary written by Gilad, a team-leader in the demolition company of the IDF's 'Givati' brigade. Gilad spent his service in Lebanon, in a time when Israel still had forces in that country. It was published as an article on 11.5.01 by Ron Leshem in Yediot Ahronot.
Here I attempted to provide an English translation of the article from its original Hebrew. My original intention was to periodically post parts of the translated article, but it appears there's no interest in the material, so this will likely be the first and last installment.
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2005-02-15 08:11:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by pogsareback (user info) at 2005-02-15 07:57:24 EST (#)
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That's extremely depressing.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2005-02-15 07:47:50 EST (#)
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You have got to be kidding me! 46 hits and 1 review?!
Fuck you, Valentine's Day! Fuck you up your goddamn ass!
Submitted by hungovermondays (user info) at 2005-02-14 16:22:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
sorry