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Quotation of the Day for September 17, 2016



"Imagination and sentiment, which quite properly delimit the dimensions of the novelist's realm, are a dangerous medium, however, through which to approach the subject of battle. Indeed, in that sub-world of imaginative writing which Gillian Freeman has called the undergrowth of literature, calculated indulgence in imagination and sentiment have produced, and regrettably continue to produce, some very nasty stuff indeed, which at its Zap-Blatt-Banzai-Gott im Himmel-Bayonet in the guts worst may justifiably be condemned by that overworked phrase, 'pornography of violence'."

- John Keegan, historian, in The Face Of Battle.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 15, 2016

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