#dunstan ramsay

[karolinaforbes]

Dunstan Ramsey is GAY.

[arsenicandnewlace]

"I had schooled myself since the war-days never to speak of my enthusiasms; when other people did not share them, which was usual, I was hurt and my pleasure diminished; why was I always excited about things other people did not care about?"

- Dunstan Ramsay (Fifth Business by Robertson Davies)

[imperialhome]

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Fifth Business, Robertson Davies

[ladydedlock]

It was the indignity, the ignominy, the squalor, to which war reduced a wounded man that most ate into me. Men in agony, smashed so that they will never be whole again even if they live, ought not to be something one ignores; but we learned to ignore them, and I have put my foot on many a wretched fellow and pushed him even deeper into the mud, because I had to get over him and onto some spot that we had been ordered to achieve or die in trying.

Dunstan Ramsay talking about WWI and life in the trenches in France, in Fifth Business by Robertson Davies