Paul Fussell (March 22, 1924) is an American academic whose writing on literature and 20th century military experience is based on personal experience refracted through a exceptional intellect. He wrote: "Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it."
A small sampling of his books is:
Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).
Fussell also wrote a charming book, Class: a guide through the American status system (1983). When Fussell analyzes the upper class preference for dogs over cats, he expands on Thorstein Veblen, about uselessness being an aspect of 'conspicuous consumption':
The cat is also "less reputable," as Veblen observes, "because she is less wasteful; she may even serve a useful end," like repressing mice. Upper-class cats, the equivalent of poodles in the dog world, are those held to originate in such exotic places (that is, expensive to get to) as Burma and the Himalayas.
After a long career in academia, Fussell and his second wife moved to Oregon.
A small sampling of his books is:
Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).
Fussell also wrote a charming book, Class: a guide through the American status system (1983). When Fussell analyzes the upper class preference for dogs over cats, he expands on Thorstein Veblen, about uselessness being an aspect of 'conspicuous consumption':
The cat is also "less reputable," as Veblen observes, "because she is less wasteful; she may even serve a useful end," like repressing mice. Upper-class cats, the equivalent of poodles in the dog world, are those held to originate in such exotic places (that is, expensive to get to) as Burma and the Himalayas.
After a long career in academia, Fussell and his second wife moved to Oregon.
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