Three Soldiers

I've been reading John Dos Passos's novel about World War I. Three Soldiers follows, yes, 3 different soldiers' experiences in World War I, from boot camp in the U.S. to "victory" over the Kaiser. It's now accepted fact that World War I did not do its job (hence World War II) by not sufficiently "beating the Germans." I find it interesting that Dos Passos saw that so clearly even in 1920 while writing Three Soldiers. Today John Dos Passos is an under appreciated writer, though he was declared to be the "greatest writer of our times" back in his times. I plan to read more of his works, including Manhattan Transfer and the trilogy U.S.A.

Work is sailing along rather smoothly (except for that bit about not having a key note speaker for our annual meeting. That is a bit of an issue), and I have the pleasure of meeting with "newsletter guy" this afternoon. Hooray.

I've procrastinated enough this morning, I believe. I've got copies to make for the mountainous stacks of packet inserts (for a mountainous amount of meetings that will contain the same molehill amount of people at each one. Why we waste the money making up virtually the same packet over and over again is beyond me.).

New blog of note: the Anonymous Lawyer.