Paul Fussell: ‘What Will Happen to the Celery Stalks In the Event of Another War Is Difficult to Determine’

This letter appeared in the winter issue of  American Speech in 1948, when Paul Fussell was 24 years old and a master’s student at Harvard.


Fussell died today, aged 88 .

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