War as Inner Experience: Part Four

by Ernst Jünger

This is the fourth part of a new translation of Ernst Jünger’s profound treatise War as Inner Experience, which will be published here in installments.

Also read parts one, two and three.

The Trench

The Trench. Labor, horror, and blood have forged the word into a steel tower, weighing heavily on anxious minds. Not just a wall and bulwark between warring worlds, but also a wall and dark cave to the hearts it incessantly drew in and expelled. A glowing Moloch, slowly burning the youth of nations to slag, a spun web of veins over ruins and desecrated fields, from which the blood of humanity pulsed into the earth.