Status Updates From The Great War and Modern Me...

school has slowed the ww1 lit grind but it has not been stopped!!!!!

“And that new dimension is capable of revealing for the first time the full obscenity of the Great War. The greatest irony is that it is only now, when those who remember the events are almost all dead, that the literary means for adequate remembering and interpreting are finally publicly accessible.”

“As we perceive in the work of Mailer and Pynchon and James Jones, it is the virtual disappearance during the sixties and seventies of the concept of prohibitive obscenity, a concept which has acted as a censor on earlier memories of ‘war,’ that has given the ritual of military memory a new dimension.”

this book is so so so great. i’m constantly having my mind blown and soooo many different pieces of literature and various things i’ve read are all being connected with the through line of war

“Prolonged trench warfare, with its collective isolation, its “defensiveness,” and its nervous obsession with what “the other side” is up to, establishes a model of modern political, social, artistic, and psychological polarization.”