me and the mutuals
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Suicide in the Trenches
by Siegfried Sassoon
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
Siegfried Sassoon
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Stephen Tennant and Siegfried Sassoon at Wilsford Manor 1927/28, photo by Cecil Beaton
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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
Siegfried Sassoon
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Happy birthday Wilfred Owen! (b. 18th March 1893)
↳ Know that since mid-September, when you still regarded me as a tiresome little knocker on your door, I held you as Keats + Christ + Elijah + my Colonel + my father-confessor + Amenophis IV in profile.
What's that mathematically?
In effect it is this: that I love you, dispassionately, so much, so very much, dear Fellow, that the blasting little smile you wear on reading this can't hurt me in the least.
If you consider what the above Names have severally done for me, you will know what you are doing. And you have fixed my Life – however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.
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"[Siegfried Sassoon] comes out very well. I’m glad of that, for I like him: homosex and all."
-T.E. Lawrence to Robert Graves, September 1929
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Stephen Tennant, Bright Young Thing, 1922.
©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.
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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didnt exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
Siegfried Sassoon
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Benediction (2021) dir. Terence Davies
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