Gee!! I wish I were a man, I'd join the Navy. Be a man and do it 〔1917〕

Gee!! I wish I were a man, I'd join the Navy Be a man and do it - United
States Navy recruiting station/Howard Chandler Christy 1917.

Gee!! I wish I were a man, I'd join the Navy.
「ああ、私が男だったら海軍にはいるのに」
BE A MAN AND DO IT
「男なら、やってみろ！」

If I had been a soldier fighting in the Great War, I would sooner have got hold of Prufrock than The First Hundred Thousand or Horatio Bottomley's Letters to the Boys in the Trenches. I should have felt, like Mr Forster, that by simply standing aloof and keeping touch with pre-war emotions, Eliot was carrying on the human heritage. What a relief it would have been at such a time, to read about the hesitations of a middle-aged highbrow with a bald spot! So different from bayonet-drill! After the bombs and the food-queues and the recruiting-posters, a human voice! What a relief!
George Orwell, Inside the Whale, 1940

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