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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I have commented just a bit on H Stuart Hughes related book...<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV class=hr style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; HEIGHT: 0px" readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Keith Davis <kbob42@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Matthew Cissell <macissell@yahoo.es> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "pynchon-l@waste.org" <pynchon-l@waste.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, May 25, 2012 6:48 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Paul Fussell<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<H3 class=yiv1927709161title><A class=yiv1927709161title href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Crisis-Reason-European-1848-1914/dp/0300097182/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337986036&sr=1-2" target=_blank rel=nofollow>The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914</A> <SPAN class=yiv1927709161ptBrand>by <A href="http://www.amazon.com/J.-W.-Burrow/e/B001HORGTG/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1337986036&sr=1-2" target=_blank rel=nofollow>J. W. Burrow</A></SPAN></H3><BR>
<DIV class=yiv1927709161gmail_quote>On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Matthew Cissell <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:macissell@yahoo.es" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:macissell@yahoo.es">macissell@yahoo.es</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=yiv1927709161gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">If I may be so bold, another fine book to read alongside of Pynchon is J.W. Burrow's "The Age of Reason: 1848 - 1914". Not so focused on the GReat war, but rather the intellectual trends and systems of thought that gave rise to the horror of the 20th c.<BR><BR>MC Otis<BR>
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<DIV class=yiv1927709161h5><BR><BR>________________________________<BR>From: rich <<A href="mailto:richard.romeo@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:richard.romeo@gmail.com">richard.romeo@gmail.com</A>><BR>To: "“<A href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon-l@waste.org</A>“" <<A href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon-l@waste.org</A>><BR>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:14 PM<BR>Subject: Paul Fussell<BR><BR>Paul Fussell died this week<BR><BR>the great war and modern memory--yes, we love that book here<BR><BR>"By the end of the day both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken<BR>earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No<BR>thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the war. The War<BR>had won, and would go on
winning."<BR><BR>rich<BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR><A href="http://www.innergroovemusic.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.innergroovemusic.com</A><BR></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>