Gaddis and Santayana and the good ole days

[Edward A Moore]

Gaddis and Santayana and the good ole days

I haven't checked Gaddis's library but doubt it makes any difference.

This clarifies for me at least a bit of what The Recognitions might
be about in a depressing tone similar to Eliot!


http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/santayana.html

"Ideas. . . giving . .  a common point of reference and a single
standard of value.. . . .
. . .  the spirit of life, innocent of any rationalizing
discipline and deprived of an authoritative and adequate method of expression,
has relapsed into miscellaneous and shallow exuberance.

Religion and art have become short-winded.

They have forgotten the old maxim that we should copy in order to be copied
and remember in order to be remembered."

ed's note: Hmm. . .I still see a lot of long winded stuff on religion
and art esp
in my own writing.


Homer: It'll be great to see the old gang again. Potsie, Ralph Malph, the Fonz

Marge: That wasn't you, that was "Happy Days"!

Homer: No, they weren't all happy days.
Like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle,
or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks
and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back.

ed