Geoff Dyer - The Missing of the Somme

p. 101 ‘What you people. .’: ibid., pp. 46–7.

p. 102 ‘The mud. There. .’: ibid., pp. 71–2.

p. 103 ‘a small train. .’: Birdsong , p. 67.

p. 103 ‘from Albert out. .’: ibid., p. 68.

p. 103 ‘where the Marne. .’: ibid., p. 83.

p. 103 ‘terrible piling up. .’: ibid., p. 59.

p. 104 The distinction between remembering and remembering the act of remembering together is derived from James E. Young, The Texture of Memory , p. 7.

p. 105 ‘the War itself. .’: Lions and Shadows , p. 296.

p. 105 ‘clean and new. .’: Wet Flanders Plain , p. 58.

p. 106 ‘Well might the. .’, et al.: ‘On Passing the New Menin Gate’, Collected Poems , p. 188.

p. 107 ‘sullen swamp. .’, et al.: p. 141 (my italics).

p. 107 ‘acute, shattering, the. .’: Armistice Day Supplement, 12 November 1920, p. i.

p. 108 ‘soul-shattering, heart-rending. .’: Death of a Hero , p. 34.

p. 108 ‘a terrible place. .’, et al.: The Challenge of the Dead , pp. 36–7.

p. 110 ‘memorial to all. .’ and ‘mourns for all. .’: Wet Flanders Plain , pp. 97–8.

p. 111 ‘Now the chlorinated. .’ and ‘the violent cough. .’: p. 130.

p. 113 ‘They sat or. .’: caption display next to Sargent’s painting in the Imperial War Museum.

p. 113 ‘gargling from the. .’: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, Collected Poems , p. 55.

p. 113 For more on football, see Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring , pp. 125–6.

p. 115 ‘There were many. .’: p. 144.

p. 115 ‘murmuring the name. .’: Friends Apart , p. 91 (italics in original).

p. 115 ‘litany of proper. .’: The Tiger and the Rose (Hamish Hamilton, 1971), p. 72.

p. 115 ‘Passchendaele, Bapaume, and. .’: ‘The Great War’, New and Collected Poems (Robson Books, 1980), p. 63.

p. 115 ‘Cambrai, Bethune, Arras. .’ and ‘Passchendaele, Verdun, The. .’: ‘The Guns’, ibid., p. 110.

p. 115 ‘all things said. .’: ‘Crucifix Corner’, Collected Poems , p. 80; the other comparison, with Crickley, is in ‘Poem for End’, p. 201.

p. 115 ‘the copse was. .’: ‘Near Vermand’, ibid., p. 132.

p. 116 ‘Cotswold her spinnies. .’: from a different poem, also entitled ‘Near Vermand’, in Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney , p. 96.

p. 116 ‘a shattered wood. .’: from a letter of June 1916, quoted in ibid., p. 72.

p. 116 ‘bad St Julien. .’ et al.: Collected Poems , p. 170.

p. 116 ‘Tuesday, 2 October. .’: They Called It Passchendaele , p. 189.

p. 117 ‘the names were. .’: ibid., p. 187.

p. 117 ‘ The Oxford Book . .’: Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays , p. 101.

p. 117 ‘want of imagination. .’: The Great War and Modern Memory , p. 12.

p. 117 ‘hopeless absence of. .’ and ‘entirely characteristic of. .’: ibid., p. 13 (my italics).

p. 117 ‘it is refreshing. .’: ibid., p. 109.

p. 117 ‘a sort of. .’: ibid., p. 14.

p. 117 ‘the military equivalent. .’: ibid., p. 12.

p. 117 ‘sophisticated observer. .’: ibid., p. 6.

p. 118 ‘“What ’appened to. .”: The Middle Parts of Fortune , p. 219.

p. 119 ‘It was Christmas. .’: Oh What a Lovely War (Methuen, 1965), p. 50.

p. 119 ‘They’re warning us. .’: ibid., p. 64.

p. 119 ‘those poor wounded. .’ and ‘sounds like a. .’: ibid., pp. 88–9.

p. 119 ‘SECOND SOLDIER: What’s. .’: ibid., p. 46.

p. 120 ‘And when they. .’: ibid., p. 107.

p. 121 ‘it is really. .’: The Great War and Modern Memory , p. 241.

p. 121 ‘the symbolism of. .’: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston , p. 325.

p. 121 ‘Aye, all’s reet. .’: quoted in They Called It Passchendaele , p. 201.

p. 122 ‘The salient was. .’ and ‘just a complete. .’: ibid., p. 186.

p. 122 ‘To our dismay. .’: Wet Flanders Plain , p. 99.

p. 123 ‘the flesh of. .’: Watermark (Hamish Hamilton, 1992), p. 56; see also his poem ‘Nature Morte’, A Part of Speech (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980), p. 45.

p. 125 ‘concentrated essence of. .’: Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, quoted in John Keegan, The Face of Battle , p. 232.

p. 127 ‘a merciless sea. .’, et al.: Short Stories , vol. 2, edited by Andrew Rutherford (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971), p. 213.

p. 128 ‘Madame, please, / You. .’: Brian Gardner (ed.), Up the Line to Death , p. 157.

p. 129 ‘the booming mecca. .’: They Called It Passchendaele , p. 3.

p. 129 ‘earth gobs and. .’, et al.: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night , pp. 125–6.

p. 129 ‘half-ironic phrase. .’: ibid., p. 199.

p. 129 ‘A refuge for. .’: ibid., p. 25.

p. 129 ‘the war is. .’: ibid., p. 30.

p. 129 ‘was like all. .’: ibid., p. 40.

p. 130 ‘I do not. .’: letter to Henry Dan Piper, quoted in Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Kind of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald , revised edn, (Cardinal, 1991), p. xix.

p. 130 ‘After all, life. .’: letter to Mrs Richard Taylor, 10 June 1917, Andrew Turnbull (ed.), The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin, 1968), p. 434.

p. 130 ‘shell-shocks who. .’: Tender is the Night , p. 23.

p. 130 ‘a skull recently. .’: ibid., p. 50.

p. 130 ‘Suddenly there was. .’: ibid., p. 61.

p. 131 ‘Dick turned the. .’ and ‘See that little. .’: ibid., pp. 124–5.

p. 134n For more on the Michael Foot/Cenotaph controversy see Patrick Wright’s essay ‘A Blue Plaque for the Labour Movement?’, in On Living in an Old Country , Verso, 1985.

p. 136 ‘when events are. .’: The Texture of Memory , p. 263.

p. 138 ‘The thousands of. .’: Philip Larkin, ‘MCMXIV’, Collected Poems (Faber, 1988), p. 128.

p. 141 ‘the great everlasting. .’: quoted in Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring , p. 133.

p. 141 ‘had no pity. .’: from introduction in Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems , pp. 18–19.

p. 142 ‘“I’ve lost my. .’: quoted in Denis Winter, Death’s Men , p. 257.

p. 143 ‘The charred skeletons. .’: Henri Barbusse, War Diary , in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose , p. 197.

p. 143 ‘the most extraordinary. .’: letter of 13 May 1916, Winds of Change (Macmillan, 1966), p. 82.

p. 143 ‘shells never seem. .’: Julian Symons (ed.), The Essential Wyndham Lewis , p. 23.

p. 143 ‘the famous Cloth. .’: Gunner B. O. Stokes, quoted in Lyn Macdonald, They Called It Passchendaele , p. 190.

p. 143 ‘One ever hangs. .’: ‘At a Calvary near the Ancre’, Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems , p. 82.

p. 144 ‘The Calvary stood. .’: Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose , p. 145.

p. 144 ‘The cemetery at. .’: quoted in Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney p. 69.

p. 144 ‘like the edge. .’ and ‘the trees of. .’: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston , p. 279.

p. 146 ‘a landscape of. .’: quoted in Robert Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition (Thames & Hudson, 1978), p. 29.

p. 146 Robert Musil: diary entry for 3 September 1915, Tagebucher , (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, 1976), p. 312; translation in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose , p. 95.