The modernists (Woolf, Fitzgerald, Hemingway...) broke with the very complete and fully realized baroque condition of Victorian civilization. It had become artistically sterile. But the new world, while generative, was still in pieces. Too incoherent EUs.
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He’s not a hybrid between old and new. He was just pure escapist nostalgia for a vanishing world even in his own time. He basically ignored all the bad shit going down. It’s basically a funny version of Downton Abbey.
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Wonder if there’s a good survey of world literature 1910-1940 in relation to its historical context.
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Hmm randomly trawling for stuff down this bunny trail I remember reading most of the Biggles series as a kid. A fictional fighter pilot turned “air detective” with career spanning WWI to 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles
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Hmm. HP Lovecraft is to post WW1 apocalyptic conditions as Godzilla is to post WW2?
An extended anti-universe of forces that destroy human attempts at creating universes.https://twitter.com/bysl/status/1318446561190322177?s=21 …Show this thread
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