“We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for … sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”
— Beckett, Watt
Was to attend a lecture at Glasgow Uni this afternoon which would have been hugely valuable to my PhD research. So of course I arrived at Preston to see @AvantiWestCoast have cancelled the trains. Their ‘service’ is a very unfunny joke 👍
How are war and memory enacted and performed in the football contest?
Join us for @MemStudiesAssoc online panel on football, war and memory with @ORuzhelnyk@AmaraMahfoud@DarioBrentin
18.1. 5 PM CET
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@ceaubin Possibly Edward B. Westermann’s ‘X-Men at Auschwitz? Superheroes, Nazis, and the Holocaust’ (Palgrave Handbook 2020). His discussions surround fictionalisation, allegory and pop. fiction in modern Holocaust lit.