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Originally Posted by Not Bob
I thought “The Pity of War” was provocative and novel (in a good way), even though my Not Revisionist* inner historian thought it was wrong with a capital W.
Confession: I only read enough Edward Said to be able to hit on the rebellious [name of the primarily Jewish sorority at my land-grant football factory undergrad alma mater redacted] intellectual girls. Je regrette nein.
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I will confess I never cracked Pity of War. A few years ago, my reading group (when we were still ambitious) did a WWI reading project where we had three histories and a bunch of literature, and I actually suggested it because it looked interesting. But several people got to it before me and it got trashed enough that I didn't bother, and focused on the other stuff. The consensus of the group was that there was a ton of stuff in the other histories that he wasn't addressing that undermined his thesis, and that it might have been interesting if the other histories didn't make it all seem like bunk.
I wouldn't read too much Said now, his disciples have all passed him, though back in the day he was a mentor of mine. The best of them is Rosa Maria Menocal, and she should be read if you are ever going to a reunion and want to impress those rebellious sorority intellectuals (now there are three words I never expected to type in that order).
