09 January 2010

... fullest and most ultimate expression ...

"The war is utter damn nonsense--a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting"

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Letter from John Dos Passos to Rumsey Marvin
August 23, 1917


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"So was civilization nothing but a vast edifice of sham, and the war, instead of its crumbling, was its fullest and most ultimate expression."

Three Soldiers, Part IV
John Dos Passos, 1921

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