Geoff Dyer Quotes

So It Comes About That The War [World War I] Seems, To Us, To Have Been Fought Less Over Territory Than The Way It Would Be Remembered, That The War's True Subject Is Remembrance. Indeed The Whole War - Which Was Being Remembered Even As It Was Fought, Whose Fallen Were Being Remembered Before They Fell - Seems Not So Much To Be Tinted By Retrospect As To Have Been Fought Retrospectively.

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