NP but Melville sees US now

[Mark Kohut]

So, I pick up a copy of Melville's Pierre for the hell of
it.  And, among so much verbal richness at the start, including
apostrophes to Time, Reified like that, I read this:

"The monarchical world very generally imagines, that in 
demagoguical America the sacred Past hath no fixed 
status erected to it, but all things irreverently seeth and boil
in the vulgar cauldron of an everlasting uncrystalizing present."

How'd he know? [this is rhetorical] Lately thinking of how demagoguical America
is, surrounded by them in all media, all sides, and even w 
some relatives and friends lately, and I'm sure I am too when 
I pontificate. 

Demagoguic America, it is one thing we are.....

When does the dialogue start? 

Dialogic America, Utopia.....
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