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've Come to Despise That Older Generation
You don't understand why the war isn't over. The army is so strapped for replacement troops that their draft inyoung boys who are of little military use, but they're drafting em anyway because they're running out of men. Sickness and humiliation have broken your heart. You were betrayed by your parents, your schoolmasters, your ministers and even your own government. If you could, you'd put a bullet in his face. And if he should lose his life by doing that, then let the money go to his heirs. More tommies and johnnies with their whack forme daddy o and their whisky in the jars. It just stinks in your nostrils.
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