Friday, August 1, 2014
Colonel Kurtz, "I watched a snail..."
The motivating factor for Colonel Kurtz, that which opened his eyes to
the reality of, not just war, but to the realities of human survival,
can be gleaned from his following statement of: "I watched a snail crawl
along the edge of a straight razor.
That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the
edge of a straight razor... and surviving."
Colonel
Kurtz was referring to the tenacity of the Vietnamese people. He was
referring to the fact that they were able to endure such extreme
suffering, as well as inflict it, and yet were still able to survive and
even thrive. Colonel Kurtz was talking about the fact that no matter
how much suffering, death and destruction their enemy inflicted upon
them, the Vietnamese simply would not give up, that they would fight to
the last man, woman, and child.
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