American self discovery (finally, a use for my English major)
December 18th, 2007 by elie
I finished Slaughterhouse-Five today on my way across Jerusalem. One of the most finger-pointing themes of the book - relevant to me these days - is expressed in the following lines, by character Howard W. Campbell Jr., as he describes American prisoners of war compared to others.
“[Americans] were known everywhere to be the most self-pitying, least [...]