NP but Melville sees US now

[Madeleine Maudlin]

It sounds like such a mean bad word, demagog.  But a demagog is a good
person, isn't it?


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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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