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Tonight I read Lord Dunsany's Tales Of War. I think it fairly safe to say he is now my favorite author. I love everything he writes, he has an unbelievable style. He turns everything into these strange powerful and moving events. The book had me in tears on page 18 and laughing on page 60. And then alternating between the two for the rest of it. It was a rather eclectic bunch of tales of world war I, written in 1918. Unlike, Unhappy Far Off Things there were many more tales of humanity and suffering, of ordinary lives snuffed out by the war. (Which he blamed wholey on the maniacal desires of the Kaiser.) It reminded me a little of BlackAdder goes Forth, it even mentioned Charlie Chaplin at one point. Which may seem a bit silly but I'll never forget the day after the last episode of that season ended and we were all sitting around my history class in shocked silence. But this went far beyond that.
Though one of my favorite stories in there was "the Movement" which refered to a Christian preacher who announced that everyone was going to hell, and would preach, with perfect from 2-4 at speaker's corner in Hyde park and then giving way with perfect timing to the anarchists who followed, as fighting amongst themselves was "one thing that an anarchist in England must never do". It made me laugh a lot.
Though one of my favorite stories in there was "the Movement" which refered to a Christian preacher who announced that everyone was going to hell, and would preach, with perfect from 2-4 at speaker's corner in Hyde park and then giving way with perfect timing to the anarchists who followed, as fighting amongst themselves was "one thing that an anarchist in England must never do". It made me laugh a lot.