| The First World War: Shoveling Young Men into the Furnace | ||
The First World War was a perpetual, driving force that “shoveled warm human hearts and bodies by the millions into the furnace.” Gods exist to “receive gifts” (N. O. Brown). Warfare exists to feed hungry gods. The First World War was potlatch on an unimaginably grandiose scale. Who were the truculent gods that consumed the bodies of young men? They had names such as France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia. |
