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HUM 2052: Civilization IISpring 2011Dr. Perdigao

April 20-22, 2011

Keep Listening• Englishness/Americanness: Derby as “head American”;

Campbell on Americans—as Nazi

• Rumfoord: one-volume history of the United States Army Air Corps in World War II (184), as “readable condensation of the twenty-seven-volume Official History of the Army Air Force in World War II (191); Truman’s announcement (1939—science and atomic energy [186])

• David Irving’s The Destruction of Dresden (186)

• Echolalia

• Epigraph (197): Christmas carol

Keep Listening• The Big Board (201); Jesus, time machine (202)

• Magazine with “What really became of Montana Wildhack?” (204); pictures… grainy images (locket); photo with Shetland pony (205)

• Literary critics discussing if novel is dead… bury the novel (205-206)

• Montana Wildhack—blue movie, says one with Edgar Derby (207)

• Assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.

• Return to Darwin, over Christ for Tralfamadorians (210)

• 2 days after city destroyed, digging, Derby killed, then at end return to coffin-shaped wagon (215), war is over, horses

• Digging began, new technique, no more corpse mines (213-218)

Endings?• Ilium—as Troy—question of heroism, those that try to be

heroic are ridiculous. Cult of heroism as leading to war

• 60s—anti-authoritarian

• Past—smuggled back in, held up on wall, ruined cathedrals, smudged paintings

• Yearning and attack on past—ambivalence, mix of nostalgia and criticism

• Novel of exposure

• How can people remember? How can we write about it?