Paul Fussell

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, love that book. Love it. Taught me more than I wanted to know. Had it in mind, 
like a ghostly echo, as I read Against the Day. (As well as when I read many other books--Barker's,
etc. ) He was so right and kept on being right about WWW1's effect on England--as I can only see
thru its writers distantly as they keep writing about it.)
 
In this regard, I recently learned that the Nobel Committee Ex-Head, the guy who got into
controversy when he said writers from the US were, in general, parochial---which reaffirmed
my belief that Pynchon would not get the award (maybe becuase he wouldn't pick it up) ---has
also written a new history of the conflict....
 
Endless, unfortunately.
 

From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell died this week

the great war and modern memory--yes, we love that book here

"By the end of the day both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken
earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No
thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the war. The War
had won, and would go on winning."

rich
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