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Emily
is on page 131 of 252
one of the things that’s most interesting and most challenging in historical memoir is trying to read between the lines of what’s said and what’s not said, and why, and to figure out what inferences the author wanted us to draw from those blank spaces — a kind of science fiction reader’s work, a situating in the world and the context of another place
— Mar 09, 2026 07:49PM
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Emily
is on page 212 of 252
“Relieve! / But who with what command can now relieve / The dead men from that chaos, or my soul?”
— Mar 11, 2026 06:57AM
Emily
is on page 157 of 252
from the Somme and now to Passchendaele; “a peculiar difficulty would exist for the artist to select the sights, faces, words, incidents which characterized the time… the succeeding day was dismal, noisy and horrid with sudden death.”
— Mar 10, 2026 07:22AM
Emily
is on page 143 of 252
I take it back, there’s nothing between the lines, it’s all extant horror
— Mar 09, 2026 08:25PM
Emily
is on page 53 of 252
idk what’s going on with my brain that I’m still reading so slowly, but this is very very well-told and very very harrowing
— Mar 08, 2026 08:33AM
