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Monday, January 17, 2011

A BEAUTIFUL QUOTATION FROM HULME

Taken from letter Hulme wrote while on the battlefront (emphasis added):

The only thing that makes you feel nervous is when the shells go off & you stand out revealed quite clearly as in daylight.  You have then the most wonderful feeling as if you were suddenly naked in the street and didn't like it. [...]  It's really like a kind of nightmare, in which you are in the middle of an enormous saucer of mud with explosions & shots going off all round the edge, a sort of fringe of palm trees made of fireworks all round it.

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I believe I've said this before, but I'm reminded uncannily of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front every time I read anything Hulme wrote regarding the war.  The book is a beautiful and poetic examination of WWI through a German soldier's eyes.  His narration offers the same fireworks that Hulme mentions above.

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5 comments:

  1. I really need to make it a point to read this book.

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  2. Yes, you do. It's really short. It will take a day or two, and it's free online. I could even email it to you.

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  3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/3268413/All-Quiet-on-The-Western-Front

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  4. Maybe this will be my "read-a-book-in-a-day-book".

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