Well, I saved the last for last. This is my final post for the year. This book is both a drag and a bummer, and falls prey to on the one hand, good writing, but on the other hand unoriginal misogyny (a tidy virgin/whore duology) and cliched anger at women during wartime. So I should tell, and it probably shows, that I am deeply cynical when it comes to things like patriotism, most wars, and the kind of trite and common understandings and tropes associated […]
In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.
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