Hardly TRP at all, yet............

[rich]

there's enough mediocrity to go around no matter where you are

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Kirn is a novelist, as you may know, covering this election as a writer
> not like a journalist. I am not sending this to
> start plist conversations on the election or OHIO, yet I bet, in the way
> we do, it might and they will be better than some journalists'.
>
> I am sending it because the very novelistic judgment of "mediocrity"
> reminds me like a knocking stick of TRP's take on OHIO, via
> the Swiftian savaging of Columbus in that greater and greater book:
> Against the Day. And, of course, Columbus has naming resonance
> with the promise of America. Goodbye,Columbus (but I hope you come through
> for this election. Again.)
> **
> *The New Republic (@tnr <https://twitter.com/tnr>)*
> 11/5/12, 8:00 AM <https://twitter.com/tnr/status/265438354118684672>
> . at walterkirn <https://twitter.com/@walterkirn> says the fact that #Ohio<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#Ohio>,
> the cradle of U.S. mediocrity, gets to pick the president is terrifying
> bit.ly/SsPXxC <http://t.co/N7ZouPUm>
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