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The Snow Man
~ Wallace Stevens ~
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One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted
… and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener ..
Nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
— Aug 24, 2026 06:51AM
~ Wallace Stevens ~
excerpt
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted
… and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener ..
Nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Murray ᛘᚢᛦᛦᛅᛁ
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Our troops arrived at Kiev. This handsome city had not suffered much damage. The Red Army had tried to stop the Wehrmacht outside the town. No longer able to withstand German pressure, they withdrew to the other side of the city, to spare it the kind of destruction Minsk had suffered. Kiev was our first stop, halfway between Minsk and Kharkov. Our ultimate destination, Stalingrad, was still more than 600 miles away.
— Aug 10, 2026 05:25PM
Murray ᛘᚢᛦᛦᛅᛁ
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Had to get this second hand in hc but it’s immaculate. And a better cover than the current edition. Cuz covers matter cuz art matters. I know it will be a fierce read but I also know my Deutsche friend has a lot to offer. He did not bow the knee to the Nazis. They wanted to use his WW1 memoir for propaganda and Sajer refused.
— Jul 31, 2026 02:26PM
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I read a similar book recently, and it was definitely a reminder that fear, hardship, & deprivation was a common experience for all combat soldiers...regardless of which country they were fighting for. I'll look forward to your review, Murray
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True, David. His WW1 memoir ranks with Goodbye To All That and All Quiet so I am anticipating the same level of honesty and brilliant writing I experienced with Storm of Steel. It has a very quiet beginning that lulls you. Then I turn the page to Part 2 and the heading in stark dark letters is STALINGRAD. It set me back.
A twin-mounted machine gun covered the rest of the train, which consisted simply of open flatcars like ours, but loaded with a very different kind of freight. The first one of these to pass my uncomPrehending eyes seemed to be carrying a confused heap of objects, which only gradually became recognizable as human bodies. Directly behind this heap other people were clinging together, crouching or stand. ing. Each car was full to the bursting point. One of us, more informed than the others, told us in two words what we were looking at: "Russian prisoners.”"Did you see that?" he whispered. "They've piled up their dead to shield themselves from the wind."
In my stupefaction I could only reply with something like a groan.