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Sep. 1st, 2002 09:40 pmHere's a quote from historian Stephen Ambrose, in the book Band of Brothers about the US 101st Airborne during World War II:
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[Private] Webster [a Harvard English Lit. major] went back to the road to get in on the shooting. A German turned to fire back. "What felt like a baseball bat slugged my right leg," Webster recalled, "spun me around, and knocked me down." All he could think to say was, "They got me!" which even then seemed to him "an inadequate and unimaginative cliche." (Like all writers, he was composing his description of the event as it happened.)
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That last sentence, added by Ambrose, seems to me to sum up LJ pretty well :) We're not soldiers (not all of us, anyway), but how many times have you composed LJ entries IRL as stuff was happening?
Back from Omaha, the wedding was nice.
The very rough draft of my business plan is done. Time to start blue-penciling it.
I have this introspective post brewing about nostalgia and roots, very Ambrose-esque. Unfortunately, I gotta put it on hold as I'm too tired to do anything but drool into my keyboard.
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[Private] Webster [a Harvard English Lit. major] went back to the road to get in on the shooting. A German turned to fire back. "What felt like a baseball bat slugged my right leg," Webster recalled, "spun me around, and knocked me down." All he could think to say was, "They got me!" which even then seemed to him "an inadequate and unimaginative cliche." (Like all writers, he was composing his description of the event as it happened.)
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That last sentence, added by Ambrose, seems to me to sum up LJ pretty well :) We're not soldiers (not all of us, anyway), but how many times have you composed LJ entries IRL as stuff was happening?
Back from Omaha, the wedding was nice.
The very rough draft of my business plan is done. Time to start blue-penciling it.
I have this introspective post brewing about nostalgia and roots, very Ambrose-esque. Unfortunately, I gotta put it on hold as I'm too tired to do anything but drool into my keyboard.
