"Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place."

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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