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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-05-05 12:37 pm

Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

Claude Choules, last known combat veteran of the first world war.

I finished reading Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995) yesterday. It is less of a novel than its predecessors, Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993); what it is, it becomes clear only in the last few pages, is a ritual, a sending-on, an exorcism. There was a need for it. I was reading about events still tied by memory to the living world.

They have gone on now.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-05-05 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Only Florence Green still living, her contributions disputed, also 110. *sighs*

As an inappropriate public service announcement, Traditional Medicinals' Breathe Easy tea is... um... it's...

Hwark.