November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 páginas It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. |
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... gone ; he is dead . Perhaps I should go back to my books and leave the world I cannot know in peace . For lo , between us and you a great chasm has been fixed . But his world will not leave us in peace . We will listen , in spite of ...
... gone the beliefs . Law , poetry , history , and theology have been decon- structed into free - floating nets of language with no connections to any- thing else - mere words , words , words . We are left .. as on a darkling plain Swept ...
... gone a week . Doesn't he know that people die , waiting ? Down in a newer part of the National Cemetery a small ceremony is taking place . Today is Veterans Day - what used to be called Armistice Day . On November 11 , 1918 , the ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
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NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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