The room in general; Nicole's paper discussed Malraux "perceiving a mythic quality in the German poison gas war," so in comments afterward I wanted to mention Jones' preface to In Parenthesis, where he talks about the unknown ways in which the technological advances of the war will have to become symbols of a new mythology. I said, "David Jones, Welsh war poet, In Parenthesis, 1937," and everyone around me started nodding. It was great.
As described, that movie reminds me of S. J. Perelman's pieces on his own moneysink farm in Pennsylvania.
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The room in general; Nicole's paper discussed Malraux "perceiving a mythic quality in the German poison gas war," so in comments afterward I wanted to mention Jones' preface to In Parenthesis, where he talks about the unknown ways in which the technological advances of the war will have to become symbols of a new mythology. I said, "David Jones, Welsh war poet, In Parenthesis, 1937," and everyone around me started nodding. It was great.
As described, that movie reminds me of S. J. Perelman's pieces on his own moneysink farm in Pennsylvania.