"Pat Barker's Regeneration, with her depiction of W.H.R. Rivers, the psychiatrist whose paradoxical duty is to heal men shattered by war's insanity so that they might fight again"
"my very favorite is Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, where Hadrian says, 'Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.'"
