Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Barry’s Imaginary Girlfriend ... And Most Excellent Dichotomies O Bullsh*t

Barry’s Imaginary Girlfriend | Power Line: "Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.) And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?
That, folks, is not a parody. It may provide a hint as to why Obama’s college and law school grades remain a well-kept secret."