The war has a steady, grinding, never-ending rhythm to it and then all of a sudden events are moving fast. The food is getting worse, there are more old men and young kids who get killed right away, the war is being lost, all his friends die one by one in a fast succession of vignettes and then we get the laconic announcement that the first-person narrator fell in October 1918 (one month before the Armistice, of course). In re-reading the book it seemed very rushed to me, like Remarque needed to finish the book and quickly.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
Remarque, Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- 26/04/2011 06:16:11 PM
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I read it when I was probably too young, too.
- 26/04/2011 06:36:07 PM
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The last chapters really seem rushed to me, even now.
- 26/04/2011 06:43:23 PM
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I want to read it now, so I think this was a good review.
- 26/04/2011 08:03:30 PM
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I find Steinbeck hard to digest.
- 27/04/2011 05:05:45 AM
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He can also be inconsistent, but that makes him interesting to me.
- 27/04/2011 06:47:25 AM
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*NM*