A Gnostic Swansong...poet montague in Irish Times on Harold Bloom

[alice wellintown]

American troops have always included felons and mercenaries. WTF, this
in the Irish Times. GeeeGad would you like irony on that? Sure, there
is your irony. A good percentage of the troops have always been
Irish-Americans. Where would America be without those Irish American
felons and mercenaries? When was America not in a state of falling
apart, in decline? During itz bloody renaissance? Can a nation as
young have a renaissance? Who came up with that phrase? American
Renaissance? Oswald Spengler? Is that you? Who can pay for a war? When
was America not approaching bankruptcy? This ain't the USSR. There is
your bankruptcy. There is a time, a time for everything. Now is not
the time for whitman or emerson. Jeeez, surely Old Harry is not so
delusioned as to think we could produce, like another MMonroe Madona
Gaga, an Emerson from a mass cunsumer culture. Didn't Ginsberg say it
long ago, America. Obscene odes on his dirty underwear thrust out his
office window, I am with you Carl...nest to god of course america
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This angry note, like an Old Testament prophet or Jesus chastising
> Jerusalem, resounds in The Anatomy of Influence. He thunders,
> “Twenty-first-century America is in a state of decline . . . We have
> approached bankruptcy, fought wars we cannot pay for, and defrauded our
> urban and rural poor. Our troops include felons, and mercenaries of many
> nations are among our ‘contractors’ . . . We have no Emerson or Whitman
> among us”.