Status Updates From A Farewell to Arms

Still really only able to read Hem in 20-30 pg blocks. Can’t sink into it.

Chapters like XXVI-XXVII are how EH grabs me. Like war itself—according to my Vietnam vet friend Sam—AFtA drags us through long stretches of quotidian boredom, then a page makes us pay attention differently. XXVI breaks into insight when Lt. Henry and the priest discuss victory and defeat; XXVII dismisses abstractions and endorses the concrete (184-185), then a page of battle before a long bit on sleep and food.