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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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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It is all preserved in the mind of God, and nothing good will ever perish
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man, this hit different. There are so many things I'll have to explain to my daughters at one day, WW2 and 9/11 are def on that list. And then they'll go: hey what the fuck is that! And I'll be like: Yeah dude, couldn't even begin to say. And then we'll just share the silence
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Very many times I drive them over an Autobahn and suddenly look around and realize that I put them into this little container of spurious safety to drive them through a landscape of complete and utter insanity that none of us will ever come even close to untangling.
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fatalistic but perhaps optimistic?
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i think I mostly feel elegiac
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when you find out about proton decay, it becomes increasingly hard to plan for the future because there isn’t one maybe baby moonbot can fix it here, an ancient prophecy for them to fulfillpic.twitter.com/2onkc8bGzr
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