How It All Goes Down
The First Blasts, and Then Love, 1941
- As Safran makes love to Zosha, he thinks that "everyone but the Gypsy girl and his mother could die and he would be able to go on" (31.1).
- Not exactly something you tell your wife on your wedding night.
- But he thinks that...and orgasms as bombs fall over Trachimbrod.
- After the explosions, he is surprised to realize "he was not dead, but in love" (31.3). (So he learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?)