Status Updates From Death of a Hero

very slow, very confusing but it’s all good!

"...there was nothing wrong with common humanity...
It was the leadership that was wrong, not the war leadership but the peace leadership. The nations were governed by bunk and sacrificed to false ideals and stupid ideas. It was assumed that they had to be governed by bunk—but if they were never given anything else, how could you tell?"

I have finished my re-read of Part I. I had forgotten quite how angry this book is. How much it is an attack on the England of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It's fabulously written though.

Have started a re-read in companionship with H.D.'s Bid Me To Live. Because they're connected. Because H.D. and Aldington were married during WW1. They also feature in D.H. Lawrence's 'Aaron's Rod' and John Cournos's 'Miranda Master's'.