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[diotina]

What might it be like to encounter a radically different culture and country entirely through its literature? To relinquish all preconceived notions held about it, and instead allow its words to tell you of the meaning of its existence and how it came into being, to make those words a talisman against the simulacrum of perceptions that flood your

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[misfratz]

Those are very powerful. Like Owen's, but maybe more immediate. But what culture would you say he was from? I wonder too, how much people experience the sensory images of the poetry when still, after Owen and presumably after Turner too, people still choose to go to war? Kind of hypothetical because I doubt anyone can answer. I think there must be some lack of immediacy of the medium though, or some deep disconnect in the majority psyche, because it often seems that gap is not bridged.

[ciunas_alainn]

Wow. Loved it. Thank you for sharing it.

-Amy

[dryad_wombat]

Aha! You're teaching at the snme university as I am now? I often trundle down to Craiglockhart for teaching. The hospital museum is rather beautiful, I think.

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[diotina]

Sara! This is Padmini! I thought you knew! :)

[dryad_wombat]

Padmini! But you're at Stirling still! Or ... have we got you back????????? (hope hope)

[dryad_wombat]

Oh alas. I just saw the date of your entry - 2009!

I was all excited for a minute thinking we had you back in our clutches :)