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Sport 41: 2013

VThe Pre-War Influence in Contemporary Literature

V      The Pre-War Influence in Contemporary Literature

That, when I was living in that house with all those joes, johns, girls, whatever, was when I began writing in the genre I termed ‘pre-war’. I got sick of everyone saying, ‘Oh, you’re a playwright/poet? What kind of plays/poetry do you write?’ and me snarkily retorting, ‘I don’t know, what kinds of plays/poetry are there?’ and them stumbling and fumbling and saying, ‘Um, I don’t know, I mean, I thought . . . um, I don’t know what I thought.’

So then the new conversation would go, ‘Oh, you’re a . . . whatever? What kind of whatevers do you make?’

‘I’m a pre-war whatever and I make pre-war whatevers.’

‘Pre-war? Pre-war?’

‘Yeah, you’ve heard of post-war, right? Post-war art?’

‘Sure, but . . . which war?’

And then dark and ominously, ‘The next one.’