He was sitting in the Europeiski cafe' in Warsaw, he writes, when he saw German troops returning from the front: Suddenly he was struck with horror and realized that they had no eyelids. The ghastly cold of that winter had the strangest consequences. Thousands and thousands of soldiers had lost their limbs; thousands and thousands had their eyes, their noses, their fingers and their sexual organs ripped off by the frost. Many had lost their hair. Singed by the cold, the eyelid drops off like a piece of dead skin.
Their future was only lunacy.
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