365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz
The History of Literature
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You're a Schoolboy Walking Through the Tall Poplar Trees
You fight for a week or a month, and you gain ten yards. And then the next month it gets taken back. All that culture from a thousand years ago, that philosophy, that wisdom, plato, aristotle, socrates, what happened to it? It should have prevented this. Your thoughts turn homeward, and once again, you're a schoolboy walking through the tall poplar trees. More bombs dropping on you from you've got to get it together. Now you can't even look at anybody for fear of some miscalculable thing that might happen. The common grave. There are no other possibilities.
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