tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071936218849577375.post8829291155375749150..comments2024-03-19T23:20:47.782-07:00Comments on Unintentional Irony: Crimes Against the HumanitiesJames Killushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265296146264452333noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071936218849577375.post-7664840220671398842008-01-20T22:08:00.000-08:002008-01-20T22:08:00.000-08:00My mother loves me. On the other hand, she doesn't...My mother loves me. On the other hand, she doesn't remember saving my comics, but then, they weren't as important to her as they were to me.<BR/><BR/>I was obviously not trying to be exhaustive in my list; I even debated putting in the Taliban destructions, given that the looting of Baghdad was of greater importance, and the U.S. strongly partakes of that shame.<BR/><BR/>Many thanks for the additional items. Perhaps I should try to float a book proposal. One among so many...James Killushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08265296146264452333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071936218849577375.post-35296076961717639222008-01-19T13:36:00.000-08:002008-01-19T13:36:00.000-08:00A good review by Ursula Le Guin of People of the B...A good <A HREF="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2243006,00.html" REL="nofollow">review</A> by Ursula Le Guin of <I>People of the Book</I> in today's Guardian.<BR/>The novel, by Geraldine Brooks, has for subject the true story of the Haggadah, a 14th century Jewish codex saved from the Serbian shelling of Sarajevo by a Muslim librarian.<BR/>And before that from the Nazis in 1941 by an Islamic scholar...Arnaudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981811952772848574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071936218849577375.post-5945850614721071762008-01-19T08:26:00.000-08:002008-01-19T08:26:00.000-08:00Tuchman's Guns of August uses the burning of the u...Tuchman's <I>Guns of August</I> uses the burning of the university library at Louvain in Belgium to represent the horrifically repressive German army attitudes to occupied citizenry. <BR/><BR/>To their credit the Germans were apparently bent on razing and burning the entire town, not just the library. And, <A HREF="http://www.uniset.ca/microstates/delannoy_louvain.htm" REL="nofollow">they claimed</A>, if the locals had told them about the library it would have been spared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071936218849577375.post-27571890265524962852008-01-19T05:44:00.000-08:002008-01-19T05:44:00.000-08:00Your mother saved your comic book collection!? But...Your mother <B>saved</B> your comic book collection!? But... but, that goes against all of human experience and wisdom!<BR/>Mothers <B>destroy</B> comic books collections, usually during your first time away from home, that's the main reason for their presence on this planet...Arnaudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981811952772848574noreply@blogger.com