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 Can you imagine a life without your 5 senses? To not be able to touch, see, hear, taste or smell. To not be able to feel anything and be so lost. Anyway, I read Johnny Got His Gun recently and that's what's been on my mind. How terrible it would be to not be able to put your arms around your loved ones, to not smell dew on a summer morning, to not hear the waves crashing along the beach, to not see your one and only ever again... everything. You would only have your memories and only those lasting images in the darkness of your mind. Oh, boy. Anyway, this book is, well, anti-war. I knew that going in. It's written with a fury that can't be stopped: run-ons, streams of consciousness, ahhh! At times, I felt at the mercy of Dalton Trumbo, cornered by his rants; they're just so powerful. But what I didn't expect was to be so heavily impacted by the things beyond the anti-war sentiment. It's just... the humanity. The beauty of being human, to be able to live a life. To feel. To touch. And to have all that taken away? My God. No TrackBacksTrackBack URL: http://www.toastier.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/185 |
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Hi, my name is Amy. Be well, and say hello!
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I'm so, so late for this, but I guess that's okay.
I read Johnny Got His Gun...two years ago? It was riveting, to say the least. I love the way Dalton Trumbo wrote it; although it's not exactly considered one of the great works of 20th century literature, the stream of consciousness does indeed sweep you off your feet at times. The timing of its publication was rather unfortunate, though -- did you read about the little WW2 fiasco where people got pissed because they didn't realize Trumbo had written it as a reaction to the OTHER world war?
Have you ever seen the movie, by the way?
Great stuff, though. Random people who see this, I second everything Amy said. It's a short read, so get to it, dammit.