GRGR: Gottfried and NASA's spam-in-a-can

David A. Kassay davek at ll.mit.edu
Tue Jun 22 13:40:22 CDT 1999


Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> It's jumping the gun a bit, 

On the subject of Gottfried, I saw this in an article on NATO
spokesman Jamie Shea's doctoral thesis at wsws.org. Sounds a 
bit like P's little Gottfried.


"Under Fire" describes in terms of the experiences of one small
group of men this futile slaughter over tiny strips of land. (Henri)
Barbusse
writes of individual deaths, "Little Godefroy-did you know
him?-middle of his body blown away. He was emptied of blood on
the spot in an instant, like a bucket kicked over", of "woods sliced
down like corn-fields" at Verdun, of dead "heaped up like a
wood-pile". 


-- David



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