Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88

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7 pointsgruseom3 comments

"These were books, he would later recall, that he was “supposed to write.”"

It's impressive when someone who's already successful discovers and passes that limit.

I liked his book on meter though, even if it was one of the books he was supposed to write.

Try reading the title piece of his collection "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." I thought of it when I read your essay "What you Can't Say." Fussell liked breaking rules, and he did it with subtlety and a lot of thought. He was a complex thinker.

"The Great War and Modern Memory" is an excellent book.

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