Along Places of Peace
The morning at Firestone delivered a few hours of reading and i am nearly finished with Shiloh. Foote attributes his style in war-writing to Stendhal, Tolstoy and Stephen Crane. I would say it is also tempered by the dispatches from WWII, but such is completely understandable. Thoughts raced along as I read about what will be the next selection given that Natasa hasn't been able to read much these past few days.
Roger took a history of the influenza epidemic along to Maine and pondering that, I have thought of my own favorite books on pathology or at least the effected populace. In no order:
1) Decamaron - Boccaccio
2) Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
3) And The Band Played On - Stilts(?)
4) Illness as Metaphor - Sontag
Magic Mountain might as well be added, alas, that's the ebb and flow.
Roger took a history of the influenza epidemic along to Maine and pondering that, I have thought of my own favorite books on pathology or at least the effected populace. In no order:
1) Decamaron - Boccaccio
2) Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
3) And The Band Played On - Stilts(?)
4) Illness as Metaphor - Sontag
Magic Mountain might as well be added, alas, that's the ebb and flow.
posted by jon faith at
3:32 AM
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The first few chapters of "Influenza" are worth it just for Barry's take on the history and development of medical science. I've been thinking of "Magic Mountain" throughout (page 65 so far).
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