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Friday, July 5th, 2013
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| 12:03a | British Siegfried  Sassoon's periods of duty on the Western Front were marked by exceptionally brave actions, including the single-handed, but ultimately pointless, capture of a German trench in the Hindenburg Line. Armed with grenades he scattered 60 German soldiers: "He went over with bombs in daylight, under covering fire from a couple of rifles, and scared away the occupants. A pointless feat, since instead of signalling for reinforcements, he sat down in the German trench and began reading a book of poems which he had brought with him. When he went back he did not even report. Colonel Stockwell, then in command, raged at him. The attack on Mametz wood had been delayed for two hours because British patrols were still reported to be out. "British patrols" were Siegfried and his book of poems."Deepening depression at the horror and misery the soldiers were forced to endure produced in Sassoon a paradoxically manic courage, and he was nicknamed "Mad Jack" by his men for his near-suicidal exploits. |
| 12:19a | интересна тема отношений Грейвса и Сэссуна - последний был гомосексуалистом (впоследствии, правда, "остепенившимся", оженившимся и нарожавшим ребятишек - "Sassoon had a number of homosexual affairs but in 1933 surprised many of his friends by marrying Hester Gatty.") они были близкие друзья (познакомились, кажется, на фронте, были в одном батальоне) "Knowing Sassoon's sexuality leaves the reader with the question of Graves' sexuality, given they are such close friends. The question of Robert Graves' sexuality is not answered but it is implied that he and Sassoon were once intimate; however, in Chapter 17, Graves clearly says that he is not a homosexual "even in thought." Graves tells Sassoon that his "affections are running in normal channels now" and he would "hate for him to think he was homosexual." http://www.k-state.edu/english/west пикантность в том, что Грейвс, судя по всему, таки имел роман с Сэссуном. Грейвс, впоследствии в своей "Белой Богине" довольно саркастично высмеявший "аполлиническую" поэзию за её гомосексуальную подоплеку и настаивавший (справедливо, на мой взгляд), что подлинная поэзия всегда о Богине (и женщине как Её отображении) (признавая, впрочем, исключения вроде Рембо), и критиковавший метафизический гомосексуализм маскулинного единобожия с его культом "Бога-отца" и главными идеологами Сократом и Платоном |
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