ATDTDA (14): A little ramshackle for a time machine, 401-405

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/10/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I read an essay (totally forget name, author) re: Brigadier Pudding's strange appetite in GR.  The author related this to his quasi-nostalgia for the carnage of blood, mud, shit and putrescence that was WWI.  The Chums may just be getting a good whiff of the impending war.

Fussell, Paul. "IX. Persistence and Memory" in: The Great War and
Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, United
States [1975]: 310-334 [328-34].

Fussell, Paul. "The Brigadier Remembers" in: Pynchon: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey, United States [1978]: 213-219. Article originally
published in The Great War and Modern Memory as IX. Persistence and
Memory [1975]: 310-334 [328-34].

Fussell, Paul. "The Brigadier Remembers" in: Critical Essays on Thomas
Pynchon. Ed. Richard Pearce. G.K. Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United
States [1981]: 213–219.

http://www.vheissu.info/biblio/namen.php?p=292

I actually met Paul Fussell once.  Having never seen, much let met,
him, his wife came up to me at work and said, have you seen my
husband? as if I'd know who her husband was.  Turned out, in the end,
I did.  I still have his card in my copy of TGW&MM  ...