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literally love it here

oh this is so great

always a good morning when i can get some poetry in

another read for my global lit + activism class! really enjoying this one so far

“you will find me, god, like a dumb pigeon’s beak, pecking every which way at astonishment”

“I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing”

“i think of the twentieth century as one long question, and in the end we got the answer wrong”

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

getting really fed up with reading about misogynistic rich white men

“today the grass listens when i speak of love. it seems to me that this word isn’t honest even with itself”

“love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.”

“to be made whole by being not a witness, but witnessed”

“everyone felt joy at the dictator’s imminent demise, but no demise came….everyone wanted to outlive him” hehehehehehe the relevancy is THERE

i love how the collection is ordered. flows so well

i feel like i am the one who just got broken up with

this book is so effortlessly beautiful oh my god

“he had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed”

ww1 is following me…… tell me why i’m reading a book for a publishing class and reading about ww1. not complaining!!!!!

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

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.”

gene is pissing me off

first book for my global literature and activism class 😛

“he’ll look down on war from above and so he’ll always love it”

“the actor and the soldier have the same mythology”

“one of the cruxes of the war is the collision between events and the public language used for over a century to celebrate the idea of progress”

“every tunic pocket became a reliquary”

ooohhhhh pat barker i love you for this one

“it’s as if all other wars had somehow distilled themselves into this war, and that makes it something you almost can’t challenge”

woah. ww1 established the binaries that ww2 then broke down