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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2004/05

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:33:55 -0400


"American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when i=
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concerns itself with religious dogma or political theory, is extraordinarily=
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timid and superficial ... [I]t evades the genuinely serious problems of art=20
and life as if they were stringently taboo ... [T]he outward virtues it=20
undoubtedly shows are always the virtues, not of profundity, not of courage,=
not of=20
originality, but merely those of an emasculated and often very trashy=20
dilettantism."

-H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880=E2=80=931956) American journalist, critic
=E2=80=9CThe National Letters,=E2=80=9D from Prejudices: Second Series

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