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

from a letter a soldier wrote to his deceased foxhole “brother” on armistice day: “one happy hour to be / with you alone, friend of my own / that would be heaven to me” - i am inconsolable right now

“it was not so in america, which has always done very well without a consciousness of a national literary canon” huh?

evelyn waugh mentions out the ASS. how can i escape this guy.

realizing that i suppressed my memories of catch-22 because it was so devastating to read - thanks, mr. fussel, for reminding me of snowden’s final scene.

(just read "Arcadian resources") fucccck this book is so so good . Mastery of literary/cultural criticism and I care very deeply for all the works mentioned and how they intertwine. So fucking good!!!!!! Reading the whole thing out of order certainly . Love u Paul!

I read not much but goodness what a lush and flawlessly organized text. Paul fussell you are a friend of mine!! And a friend to all modernism scholars and those who weep for Siegfried sassoon🤤🤤