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K “Perhaps his best work. Done when he was young.”
J “He worked the trenches and wrote trenchantly.”
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[See the e-commentary at Smedley And Ernest On Our Friend “War”; The “Racket” Continues (September 7, 2015) and Interest Rates ‘risin’? (March 30, 2015).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter.” Esquire, September 1935.
“Hills Like White Elephants”
“Up In Michigan”
“No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt from fighting should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war. The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. . . . The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.”
Ernest Hemingway, “Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter,” Esquire, September 1935
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