Re: Culture: Uniting (Cont. 2)

[cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Carrol Cox)]

...infect their Marxism in various] ways, either by making them hysterical
in their anti-religion or dogmatic in their Marxism, using it as
a substitute religion.)

    I say "bourgeois-classic decorum" rather than bourgeois literature
because I wish to include under the heading "bourgeois" not only
bourgeois literature proper (of the capitalist era) but all earlier
literature that in one way or another has been ex post facto wresteled
into the bourgeois canon. In this sense the heroic-age Homer is a
"bourgeois poet."
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    And, centrally, when I say bourgeois decorum the writers on whom I
formed my responses, in chronlogical order, were Ben Jonson (non-
dramatic), Milton,  Rochester, Pope, Austen, Dickens, James, Pound, and Mar
Marianne Moore. I still respond viscerally to five of the morst morally
ugliest lines in literature in English in one of Pound's late Cantos (I
won't quote them, they are too repugnant; but what glory. The cosmos
turns pure light as one reads them.)

    And my politics more or less corresponded to my "cultural"
responses. Except that from certain childhood expeiences I retained a
sort of spontaneous anti-racism (which doesn't mean that I wasn't also
racist), I very well might have become a fascist. (Though I had sort of
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