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Lost Generation: January 2013
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Churchill, The Blitz, and your 1992 Honda Civic. Winston Churchill, 1916. I don't mean to compare the hardships endured by those in truly trying times to those more trivial neurotic problems of today, but in fact I mean to contrast. Although the German air assault on Britain during World War II officially focused on industrial targets, bombings increasingly took their toll on civilian life. The book E agle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe,. Consider it pure joy brothers a...
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Lost Generation: Lost: Tolkien and Hemingway
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Monday, January 28, 2013. Lost: Tolkien and Hemingway. 8220;I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien. Whose world was more real? And whose was the better? More importantly, whose do you want to live in? A final quote of Tolkien's, when criticized for writing 'escapist literature'. Lord of the Rings.
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Lost Generation: The Lost Generation
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: 'I played a flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a dirge for you and you did not mourn'.". Lost generation'. It's a term that's been applied to one cohort or another for almost one hundred years now. Most famously applied to the World War I generation and most recently, the present generation of the Great Recession. But were damaged or destroyed unjustly...
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Lost Generation: Churchill, The Blitz, and your 1992 Honda Civic
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Churchill, The Blitz, and your 1992 Honda Civic. Winston Churchill, 1916. I don't mean to compare the hardships endured by those in truly trying times to those more trivial neurotic problems of today, but in fact I mean to contrast. Although the German air assault on Britain during World War II officially focused on industrial targets, bombings increasingly took their toll on civilian life. The book E agle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe,. Consider it pure joy brothers a...