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References
- ↑ Whittier-Ferguson, John (27 Oct 2014) Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, Cambridge University Press Retrieved on 26 March 2019.
- ↑ Cadava, Eduardo (2001). "Lapsus Imaginis": The Image in Ruins. October. MIT Press. Retrieved on 26 March 2019. "That the image is most probably staged can be confirmed by comparing it to the image of the bombed-out library that appeared only one day earlier in the London Times. In the photograph of the destroyed library that was reproduced in the October 22, 1940, issue of the Times (p. 6), the books along the walls are much more disheveled, there is more debris scattered across the ground, there are no people inhabiting the space, and the atmosphere of the scene is strikingly more dark and ominous. In addition, the bombing of the library was not announced in the Times until over three weeks after the event. While this delay could be attributed to the disarray and chaos resulting from the blitz, it is also most certainly an effect of censorship: the British Ministry of Information was reluctant to announce the destruction of some of the city's most revered and historically significant buildings. Both of these incidents-the reproduction of the image in the London Times and the delay with which it appeared-suggest that the image before us was, among other things, staged to combat the psychological effects of the blitz: the Germans may have tried to destroy our books, our buildings-the symbols of our civilization-but we are still reading."
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