Good morning! Welcome to Talking Europe for Monday, November 11. New sign-ups are always appreciated, and if you know anyone who might like this newsletter, please share it with them. Thank you! November 11 is not a holiday in the countries that were on the losing side that day in 1918. In the countries that “won,” the holiday’s meaning is probably not apparent to very many people anymore. The world that fought that war is a lost world now, and the way people thought then is only a little bit more accessible to us than the way people thought during the Crimean War or the Thirty Years’ War. We don’t remember what all of it was really about, and even when someone explains it to us we can’t fit what we are hearing into intellectual categories that might make sense today.
Shovel them under, and let me work
Shovel them under, and let me work
Shovel them under, and let me work
Good morning! Welcome to Talking Europe for Monday, November 11. New sign-ups are always appreciated, and if you know anyone who might like this newsletter, please share it with them. Thank you! November 11 is not a holiday in the countries that were on the losing side that day in 1918. In the countries that “won,” the holiday’s meaning is probably not apparent to very many people anymore. The world that fought that war is a lost world now, and the way people thought then is only a little bit more accessible to us than the way people thought during the Crimean War or the Thirty Years’ War. We don’t remember what all of it was really about, and even when someone explains it to us we can’t fit what we are hearing into intellectual categories that might make sense today.