Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Uses for Books, Other Than Reading
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 20:
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He has been to the war, one of the strange host of 30,000 farm labourers called up in 1917, when the victims were running out. He was thirty and had already been hard at work in the Akenfield farms for twenty-one years. Then this sudden and amazing journey to the battlefield, equipped with a gun which he understood, because of rabbiting, and a New Testament, which he alternately smoked or used for lavatory paper.Related posts:
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