1. And nothing hurt HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2012 Dr. Perdigao April 18-20, 2012

2. Keep Listening Englishness/Americanness: Derby as “head American”; Campbell on Americans—as Nazi Bertrard Copeland Rumfoord, Harvard history professor, as roommate in hospital “Official accounts” Rumfoord writing a one-volume history of the United States Army Air Corps in World War II (184), as “readable condensation of the twenty- seven-volume Official History of the Army Air Force in World War II ” (191) into one volume; Truman’s announcement that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima (1939—science and atomic energy [186]), read by Rumfoord’s wife Lily Lily brings Rumfoord David Irving’s The Destruction of Dresden (1964)(186), accounts of attack, destruction, and casualties

3. Keep Listening Rumfoord’s plan to include the bombing of Dresden, as nothing has been included in the “official history”; it will now be told from the “official Air Force standpoint” (191) “‘I was there’” (191): Echolalia Epigraph (197): Christmas carol—Vonnegut references the epigraph Inability to cry over events Story of Christ, resurrection? Rumfoord: “‘It had to be done’” and “‘That’s war’” (197)

4. Keep Listening The Big Board (201); Jesus, time machine (202) Magazine with “What really became of Montana Wildhack?” (204); pictures… grainy images (locket); photo with Shetland pony (205) Literary critics discussing if novel is dead… bury the novel (205-206) Montana Wildhack—blue movie, says one with Edgar Derby (207): what is reality and what is fiction? Assassinations of Robert Kennedy (1968), Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) Return to Darwin, over Christ for Tralfamadorians (210) 2 days after city destroyed, digging, Derby killed, then at end return to coffin-shaped wagon (215), war is over, horses Digging began, new technique, no more corpse mines (213-218)

5. Endings? Ilium—as Troy—question of heroism, those that try to be heroic are ridiculous. Cult of heroism as leading to war 60s—anti-authoritarian Past—smuggled back in, held up on wall, ruined cathedrals, smudged paintings Yearning and attack on past—ambivalence, mix of nostalgia and criticism Novel of exposure How can people remember? How can we write about it?