and nothing hurt hum 2052: civilization ii spring 2011 dr. perdigao april 20-22, 2011
DESCRIPTION
Keep Listening The Big Board (201); Jesus, time machine (202) Magazine with “What really became of Montana Wildhack?” (204); pictures… grainy images (locket); photo with Shetland pony (205) Literary critics discussing if novel is dead… bury the novel ( ) Montana Wildhack—blue movie, says one with Edgar Derby (207) Assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. Return to Darwin, over Christ for Tralfamadorians (210) 2 days after city destroyed, digging, Derby killed, then at end return to coffin-shaped wagon (215), war is over, horses Digging began, new technique, no more corpse mines ( )TRANSCRIPT
And nothing hurt
HUM 2052: Civilization IISpring 2011Dr. Perdigao
April 20-22, 2011
Keep Listening• Englishness/Americanness: Derby as “head American”;
Campbell on Americans—as Nazi
• Rumfoord: one-volume history of the United States Army Air Corps in World War II (184), as “readable condensation of the twenty-seven-volume Official History of the Army Air Force in World War II (191); Truman’s announcement (1939—science and atomic energy [186])
• David Irving’s The Destruction of Dresden (186)
• Echolalia
• Epigraph (197): Christmas carol
Keep Listening• The Big Board (201); Jesus, time machine (202)
• Magazine with “What really became of Montana Wildhack?” (204); pictures… grainy images (locket); photo with Shetland pony (205)
• Literary critics discussing if novel is dead… bury the novel (205-206)
• Montana Wildhack—blue movie, says one with Edgar Derby (207)
• Assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.
• Return to Darwin, over Christ for Tralfamadorians (210)
• 2 days after city destroyed, digging, Derby killed, then at end return to coffin-shaped wagon (215), war is over, horses
• Digging began, new technique, no more corpse mines (213-218)
Endings?• Ilium—as Troy—question of heroism, those that try to be
heroic are ridiculous. Cult of heroism as leading to war
• 60s—anti-authoritarian
• Past—smuggled back in, held up on wall, ruined cathedrals, smudged paintings
• Yearning and attack on past—ambivalence, mix of nostalgia and criticism
• Novel of exposure
• How can people remember? How can we write about it?