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HBOWW2REWATCH -> Week 5 “Delay, Flak, Radio, Shell Shock”

anticipatory grief

the pacific by hbo // emily wilson's introduction to the iliad // red river valley written by unknown // ophélie by constantin meunier // judas-redeemed // point defiance steps by cecilia blomberg // there's something inside the water by victor clemete

For Week 9 of HBOWW2Rewatch: Death

With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge pg 166

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Hey, what do you call those people again? Those Cajun healers? - Traiteurs. You know, my grandma was a traiteuse. Your grandma? No shit. - She was. Laid her hands on people and cured 'em. Took away sickness, cancer, you name it. [...] I remember she used to pray a lot. Yeah, I guess she had to. - Talked to God about the pain she pulled out. Asked him to… carry it away.

GEORGE LUZ & THE IMPENETRABLE FREQUENCY OF RADIOS

As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forward, and any resistance is hopeless"; it "force-feeds us music . . . regardless of whether we want to hear it, or whether we can grasp it," with the result that music becomes just noise, a noise among other noises.

for the hbo wwii rewatch week five prompt: radios (with help from the war department's 1943 scr-300 technical manual)