1/ Finally completed the Iliad, using John Dolan’s (aka The War Nerd) translation over the Loeb version (as recommended by Luttwak). Dolan is good at capturing the bloody nature of Bronze Age combat, and also the idea that these men were drawn on by the voices of the Gods.
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7/ Dolan is always trapped between his affection for Rambo, Die Hard, “the Bronze Age”, and “fascism” and his resentful “war nerdy” postmodern leftist take. He combines the two, sort of Schopenhauer meets Marx, awkwardly...sometimes I think he’s going to give in...
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8/...but then he starts to moralise about the British Empire or is sentimental about the girl soldiers of the PKK. Being sentimental about girl soldiers—Israeli and Kurdish—is a hobby of the two sides of the left, the neoconservatives and the postmodern left repsectively.
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