This place used to be a community. Now it seems the inspiration for the writings of .....

Stinky The Clown

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:23 PM
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This place used to be a community. Now it seems the inspiration for the writings of .....

...... Erich Maria Remarque.

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Wetzelbill

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:25 PM
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1. All Quiet On The DU Front?

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panader0

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:33 PM
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3. Oh the carnage!

Yeah, there's a lot of gun jumping going on today.

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madfloridian

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:31 PM
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2. Is that so bad?

A quote or two:

"Remarque records the daily horrors in the trenches, where machine guns killed millions, in laconic understatement. "At the next war let all the Kaisers, Presidents and Generals and diplomats go into a big field and fight it out first among themselves. That will satisfy us and keep us home." (Katzinsky)

Lewis Milestone's film (1930), based on the novel, is a landmark of American cinema. One of the best scenes is when Paul (Lew Ayres) returns to his school and tells new students the truth. "When it comes to dying for your country, it's better not to die at all." The film was denounced by Goebbels as anti-German, but the Poles banned it for being pro-German."

http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/remarque.htm

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rwheeler31

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:37 PM
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4. August will be over soon.

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ashling

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:43 PM
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6. The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman's memorable book :shrug:

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pscot

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:42 PM
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5. More like Louis Ferdinand Celine

n/t

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Lint Head

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:49 PM
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7. Gun Mother, Cannon Fodder

I wrote that.

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bertman

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Sun Aug-16-09 09:51 PM
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8. A "community" of mostly anonymous computer keyboard jockeys stating their ideas and

opinions on a website. Not exactly the essence of "community", if you ask me. But, after all, it is the twenty-first century and words now have new meaning.

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