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“The war has used up words; they have weakened, they have deteriorated like motor-car tyres; they have like millions of other things, been more overstrained and knocked about and voided of the happy semblance during the last six months than in all the long ages before,…
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“…and we are now confronted with a depreciation of all our terms, or otherwise speaking, with a loss of expression through increase of limpness, that may well make us wonder what ghosts will be left to walk.” Henry James — The New York Times, March 21, 1915!
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Yeah, I think it’s a pattern… though oddly the speechless reaction to WW2 was much more muted despite it being a bigger war. I think because it lurched immediately into the Cold War. There was no gap of ambiguous time like 1919-39
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