Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

There came a moment during the lull when Mellas, lost at the center of the swirling fog, knew beyond any ability to lie to himself that he had, indeed, killed Pollini

误杀自承成弧核，plot 91。

I just told the dumb fucker he ought to like the fucking animals because they're both from the fucking jungle in the first place.

Cassidy 一句立种族裂，cast 92。

The group returned well after midnight, slowed by the darkness, silent and bent with exhaustion.

送虎归穴拖垮夜行，pace 90。

You would discover them later, swollen with blood, sticking out from your skin like little pregnant bellies.

水蛭喻体狠准，prose 91。

The patrol emerged from the wire, and the young Marines climbed slowly up the slope of the new fire support base, FSB Matterhorn

山头基地即世界，world 94。

Mellas stood beneath the gray monsoon clouds on the narrow strip of cleared ground between the edge of the jungle and the relative safety of the perimeter wire.

一线泥地开门，hook 92。

God had given him life and must have laughed as Mellas used it to kill Pollini, to get a piece of ribbon to show proof of his worth.

勋带虚无拆英雄叙事，innov 88。

All shadows, moving across this landscape of mountains and valleys, changing the pattern of things as they moved but leaving nothing changed when they left. Only the shadows themselves could change.

月光影喻收束，ending 93。