Beggarman, Thief

Beggarman, ThiefPart OneFrom billy abbott's notebookI am worthless, Monika says. She says it only half-seriously. But I agree with her seriously. She once asked me what I write in this notebook. I told her that the colonel keeps saying we are on the firing line of civilization. It is important for future generations, I told her, to know what it was like to be on the firing line of civilization in Brussels in the second half of the 20th Century. Maybe some dusty, irradiated scholar will dig aroun...