Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. - Paul Fussell
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
- Paul Fussell
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. - Paul Fussell
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in th… - Paul Fussell
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in th…
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the travel… - Paul Fussell
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the travel…
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries. - Paul Fussell
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be r… - Paul Fussell
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be r…
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable. - Paul Fussell
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. - Paul Fussell
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in the… - Paul Fussell
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in the…
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