“I’d like to go in there and watch some war and have you in there with me but I can’t because you write with war going on in the background,” the soldier said.

“No I can’t write with the tv going. But you can go in there and watch war because I am not writing. I’m just bootling. I am not trying to compose or think or anything, there is a difference.”

“I will never understand that, why you can’t work with war in the background. I also don’t understand why they make tapes of sounds of birds or wind or waves so you can go to sleep, but there are no takes of mortar rounds or sounds of artillery so a man like me can put it on and go to sleep.”

“Yes.  Yes, it is a jacked up world I suppose.”