words meant more before
explosion of cinema
and television
Adapted from the passage:
“He moves through the work of war poets, novelists and memoirists such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden. Words meant more back then, before the explosion of cinema and television. Indeed, Fussell writes, ‘Sometimes it is really hard to shake off the conviction that this war has been written by someone.'”
In the article, This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction with the tag line, Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, by Dwight Garner in the New York Times on Feb. 13, 2025.
I have to love that.
Words meant more back then, before the explosion of cinema and television.
Maybe just … words meant more back then.
At least IMHO.
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