Another very young officer enters, stands at attention before Blumenfeld.
BLUMENFELD
Sit down, von Schauss. I am talking about our Commander.
SCHAUSS
Oh!
BLUMENFELD
He has a German philosophical mind which manages guns as Leibnitz managed ideas. Everything is preconceived, everything is prearranged, the movement of our millions of people has been elaborated into such a remarkable system that Kant himself would have been proud of it. Gentlemen, we are led forward by indomitable logic and by an iron will. We are inexorable as Fate.
The officers express their approval by subdued exclamations of "bravo."
BLUMENFELD
How can he sleep, if the movement of our armies is but the movement of parts of his brains! And what is the use of sleep in general? I sleep very little myself, and I advise you, gentlemen, not to indulge in foolish sleep.