Crossword-Solution: FLESHLESS 9 letters, 47 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Today words like 'persevere' and 'hero’s death' had been so ceaselessly bandied about that they had long since acquired an ironic sound — at least wherever there was actual fighting. . . . Once, before an attack, Sturm had heard an old sergeant say the following: 'Kids, we’re going over there now to gobble up the Englishmen’s rations.' It was the best battle address that he had ever heard. That was surely something good in the war — that it destroyed glorious-sounding phrases…

The flowering chocolate drink is foaming, Tobacco flowers are passed round, If my heart tastes them, I will be intoxicated…Listen, I am alone and tormented, May I not go to the place of the fleshless…Alone I must go, my own self shall become lost…I will go alone, My heart covered with flowers…Thus let it be, But let it be without violence!

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.