Growing Up a Sullen Baptist and Other LiesThis is an eclectic array of seventeen essays, all of which will evoke a direct and immediate response. Ranging from humorous to satirical, from persuasive to sarcastic, Flynn moves from preaching to the choir to preaching at the choir. Trained as both a Baptist and a Marine, he explores the concepts gleaned from a world that this training did not equip him to control, improve, or escape. Flynn admits he has tried to meld the pretty presumption of the Baptists that "all men are brothers" with the hard presumption of the Marines that "you will attack until I say you are dead." He calls the result an unholy view of the world in which he lives and survives, alternating between humor and anger. |
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Page 110
... soldiers were largely rural ; mules , cows , pigs , flies were ordinary . Recruits were intimate with poverty , hunger and despair . Army chow looked good after depression bread lines . Sleeping in a foxhole wasn't vastly different from ...
... soldiers were largely rural ; mules , cows , pigs , flies were ordinary . Recruits were intimate with poverty , hunger and despair . Army chow looked good after depression bread lines . Sleeping in a foxhole wasn't vastly different from ...
Page 113
... soldiers were good . Japanese and Ger- mans were inhuman and deserved an agonizing death . I cheered newsreels of bombs falling on Germany and of the flaming bod- ies of Japanese soldiers . I learned to hate as a patriotic and reli ...
... soldiers were good . Japanese and Ger- mans were inhuman and deserved an agonizing death . I cheered newsreels of bombs falling on Germany and of the flaming bod- ies of Japanese soldiers . I learned to hate as a patriotic and reli ...
Page 121
... soldiers led by British officers . Hindu soldiers would not take orders from Muslims or from Indians of a lower caste but higher military rank . The streets of cities and villages of India were lined with men with nothing to do . At ...
... soldiers led by British officers . Hindu soldiers would not take orders from Muslims or from Indians of a lower caste but higher military rank . The streets of cities and villages of India were lined with men with nothing to do . At ...
Contents
Introduction Robert Flynn | 1 |
Growing Up a Sullen Baptist | 9 |
Truth and Beauty | 59 |
Copyright | |
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