on the Virgin, Venus & the Dynamo per Adams

[alice wellintown]

A wonderdul source is Project Gutenberg; wyh they even carry the works
of that other Maltese Adams, Francis. Francis William Lauderdale Adams
wrote what critic Edmund Wilson, in his essay on Marxist Literature,
calls short range works of literature (I would put P's lesser
works--Lot49, VL, IV,  under this type). It's ironic, I suppose,  that
Wilson's Finalnd, which P claims was a mighty influence, also traces
the kind of disillusionment that George Orwell suffered when he got to
see what a "Marxist" machine state. Kinda like the disillusionment
Henry Adams suffered when he realized that politicians in England, and
perhaps the world over, were driven by forces that were divorced from
any ideals about democracy or diplomacy or ethics. Adams too decided
against Marxism.  There is a wonderful edition of Finland Station
online with a Menand Foreword that destribes this critical event in
the critic's development.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Mark Kohut sez:
>> To oversimplify until you read the relevant pages or I get a scanner:
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