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11/11

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting”:
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if [...]

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Bierce and His Devil

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

“It’s getting hard for me to think of Ambrose Bierce as anything but the quintessential, though unrealized, poster boy for PTSD.” In the same way that Kay Jamison has gone back and identified many creative artists who suffered from manic-depression, I think the time has come, now that we have a better handle on it, to [...]

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