Very
cold day today temperature only just reached 4 degrees. Plan A has gone out
the window, plan B was to stay indoors. We did venture out briefly to the
supermarket and it was soooo nice to get back to our warm little flat afterwards.
The
other day on QI, a comedy panel game, Alan Davis described an interesting book
he had read. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
I
borrowed it from our local library today. The republished book has a new
introduction written by the author himself.
He
writes bout he had been thinking about WWI since…
‘the day
when as a schoolboy of twelve he was asked to read out at assembly on November
11 the names of the old boys form his school who had died in the two world
wars. It was a tiny school, but the list was so long that I was excused lessons
the next day with a sore throat”
He
then goes on to write about how he felt that …
”the war had somehow slipped from public
understanding”…
“Then only 20 years later a second frenzy had convulsed
the world, one aspect of which had been so well memorialised at the insistence
of its victims that seemed to leave no room in the public memory for earlier holocausts”
He was, I think referring to the killings of
thousands of Jews.
WWII
is still very much in the minds of the people on this side of the world. War documentaries
are screened regularly here. Not as many as WWI, but they are there.
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