stakeguess, what was at that shed the blood there. prof. anderson: did you look at up in a dictionary? student: nope. [laughter] prof. anderson: it's a word that doesn't exist. but you are right on. it's right. it was a proposed word. it was a word proposed to be entered into the english language by james joyce, who defined it just as you do find it. the aftermath. -- just as you defined it. who goes to a battlefield actually sees a battle. yes, somewhere blood is soaking battlefield. we need some award to connote the aftermath. -- we need some word to connote the aftermath. these are images that the aftermath invokes. with this course is trying to do, we have been struggling with not just the battleground aspect of it, the battleground of reconstruction. but we are also talking about the aftermath. the aftermath of the war, different kinds of reconstruction. does this make sense? this sound like high-level academic thinking? i'm on it, are really good. [laughter] 0-- i'm really good. if we turn to the other book we read. "the culture of de