American's transcend decline

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 19 08:45:52 CDT 2002


All that Adam had, all the Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam
called his house heaven and earth; Caesar called his house Rome; you
perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade, a hundred acres of ploughed land,
or a scholar's garret. Yet...your dominion is as great as theirs. 

		--Work, RWE

As great as theirs? As Rome? Oh America! How she Transcends! Oh
Democracy! She will never fall. 

Ayn Rand has nothing on Hemmingway or Pynchon. Men, American men, men in
America, are on the rise always. Decline is only a temporary set-back, a
broken spoke on the wheel, a moment to gather strength and wipe the
brow. 

Forget History's ups and down. This Nation is no heart stapled to a
dying animal. It will will rise. I rise! I rise!  I rise!  Yes, even the
women have got it in the
black marrow of their American  bones. 

There is no History, there is only Biography. 

	--RWE

This is no infants cry. This is the vision of Blake. This is no
adolescent phase, no rebellious youth soon to be harnessed in a flannel
suit and wing tip shoes. It is a way of life. America's religion.



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list