"pig" as policeman

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:46 AM -0700 8/10/06, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
>
>>I wasn't making up the notion that the 20th century began with the
>>assassination of Archduke Ferdinand...
>>I believe it's been claimed, maybe by Hobsbawm (quoted earlier by Jim
>>Parish) that the "long 19th century" began with the storming of the
>>Bastille on my birthday (but not birth year) in 1789 and ended with
>>Princip's shot in Sarajevo.
>
>Paul Fussell (in The Great War and Modern Memory) also takes the view
>that the war was the dividing line between Then and Now.  and note
>that the two great monuments of modern european literature, Joyce's
>Ulysses and Proust's A la Recherche... were both begun before the war
>(1914 and 1909, respectively) and then finished in 1922.
>
A third is Mann's Magic Mountain, which was also begun (just) before
the war and finished after it.

LH

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