Fussell's The Great War
Expressions from WWI:
Over the top
No-Man's Land
French 75
Trench coat
Lousy
Crummy (Itchy, becoming lousy)
Rank and File
"Old" (as in "good old...")
Fuckin' (as an intensifier)
"April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land..."
Thomas Pynchon-- Gravity's Rainbow
John Keegan-- The First World War
Fall 2004: M/W 8:15-9:30, 2087 and M/W 9:40-10:55, 2505N
Appt with Dr. G-- 2:30, Wednesday, 3/31
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." --Martin Heidegger
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi
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