It is an immense organism, this army, with a small brain."Īs the huge Union Army of General William Tecumseh Sherman burned its way from Atlanta to the Carolinas in 1864 - 1865, it was accompanied by a motley group of freed slaves, entrepreneurs, the dispossessed wives and children of landowners, and even a few turncoats, all of whom saw this army on the march as their protection from the hostile unknown. It sends out as antennae its men on horses. It is tubular in its being and tentacled to the roads and bridges over which it travels. "Imagine a great segmented body moving in contractions and dilations at a rate of twelve or fifteen miles a day, a creature of a hundred thousand feet. ( Jump down to read a review of The Waterworks ) ( Jump down to read a review of Billy Bathgate) ( Jump over to read a review of Homer & Langley) ( Jump over to read a review of Andrew's Brain)
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