one more thing about Paul Fussell, while we're talking about _Class_ that book is a lot of fun, but I think _The Great War and Modern Memory_ might be more important
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everything you knew when you were young is fading from memory my child will be born soon and she will never know the world before 9/11, nor even before Covid
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i don't know that there are any action items here. remember that the past is a strange world and some day we will be Past. memento mori, but for everything that you have known and grown to love. this too shall pass
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postscript. Tolkein fought in WWI and lost many of his friends. he conceptualized much of the story of middle earth and the elegiac theme of the Marring of Arda during the war while his friends died and he mouldered in a hospital makes u think
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I read Class recently for the first time; over half the value is the particular time he wrote it at. Also worth reading Age of Entitlement in tandem with Class. Buying Great War now.
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