Warday

I lie down, drawing the sheet up around my chin. I sit with my pad on my knees. Music comes to me, an unknown melody, and an image of my son rises in my mind. I want to allow myself to have hope for him and his generation.

If only we have gained wisdom from the fire. If only we can accept how alike we all are, one and another.

Credits

Jacket design by Robert Reed

Jacket typography © copyright 1984 by Andrew M. Newman

Front jacket photograph by Gary Gladstone/The Image Bank

Back jacket photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

BOOKS BY THE AUTHORS

BOOKS BY WHITLEY STRIEBER

The Wolfen

Black Magic

The Hunger

Night Church

BOOKS BY JAMES W. KUNETKA

City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Atomic Age

Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk

Copyright

Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka

WARDAY

AND THE JOURNEY ONWARD

HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON

New York

Copyright © 1984 by Wilson & Neff, Inc. and James W. Kunetka

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof to any form

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston,

383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Strieber, Whitley.

Warday and the journey onward.

J. Kunetka, James W., 1944-. II. Title.

PS3569.T6955W3 1984 813’.54 83-18678

ISBN 0-03-070731-5

Design by Amy Hill

Maps by David Lindroth

Printed in the United States of America

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the following works:

“Sailing to Byzantium” reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company from Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats. Copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats.

“The Charge of the Bread Brigade,” from Personae by Ezra Pound. Copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

The lines from “Goodbye Iowa,” from What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, Poems by Richard Hugo, are reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. Copyright © 1975 by W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“I Remember,” by Joe Brainard. Reprinted by permission of Joe Brainard.

“Howl,” from Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © 1956, 1959 by Allen Ginsberg. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.

“On living,” from Things I Didn’t Know I Loved by Nazim Hikmet, translated by Randy Biasing and Mutlu Konuk. Copyright ® 1975 by Randy Biasing and Mutlu Konuk. Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc., 225 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012.

“An inexpressible sadness…” by Osip Mandelstam. Reprinted by permission of Granada Publishing Limited.