Off the Beaten Path
The links I usually post up here are in some way amusing, but today's is a little different.
It fits in a little with the post I'm planning for later today or tomorrow, and it's definitely worth reading, if only because it's an angle we haven't seen before regarding a major world event.
Read it here.
Don't worry, I haven't gone completely serious on you. I'll return to form shortly.
posted by BJC @ 10:16 AM
Your thoughts (3 so far)
3 Comments:
what a cold, emotionless written story...I am not sure what we are supposed to get out of that story? In school we studied the effects of the bombs and the ravages of war but this guy wrote about it like he was writing a grocery list...
I think the point was that he's an American reporter with an agenda, trying to be impartial about it. But the scene overwhelms him and he occasionally will devolve into feeling, which is why the story was surpressed for 60 years.
You have to take into consideration the period in which it was written and the motivations behind the author. It's appreciable more in its historical context than of its strict content.
true, it obviously was over my head this morning...and I was comparing it today's writers
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