“Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred within […]
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Chapter 69: “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara (1975)
“Chamberlain closed his eyes and saw it again. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. No book or music would have that […]
Chapter 35: “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell (1937)
“Perhaps—I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world […]
Chapter 13: “March” by Geraldine Brooks (2006)
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude of the seed […]