Sorry to announce there'll be no posting today or tomorrow, as I am up against a couple of work deadlines, and I am currently losing. Gosh, it takes a lot of time to make a living.
In the meantime, here's a little something I learned last week: "25 percent of Russian soldiers were sent to the front unarmed [during World War I], with orders to retrieve what they could from their dead comrades." I'm indexing a book titled Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture (which will be published this fall by the University of Nebraska), and learning stuff like that leaves me feeling like I could be knocked over with a feather. Ridiculous.
Have a good start to your work weeks, all.
Have you seen the movie Enemy at the Gates? It has a scene where only half the Russian soldiers get a gun with the idea that they would just pick up a gun from the guy who gets shot in front of them...
Best to you as you meet that deadline.
Posted by: Care | 10 August 2009 at 09:11 AM
No, Care, I haven't--I tend to avoid war movies. It's depressing enough to read that sort of thing, but to see it on the big screen? I don't think I can do it. But thank you for the suggestion, and thanks for the deadline encouragement.
Posted by: Citizen Reader | 10 August 2009 at 09:49 PM