“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Interesting and amusing to see how a brilliant mind completely detached from the "soul" and "essence" of American popular "culture" strives manfully with a straight face to attach profound significance to manifestations that are in fact trivial and profoundly inane.
Rather reminiscent of France's bizarre reverence for the work of comedian Jerry Lewis –– a fellow whose slapstick antics I have always found both tedious and singularly unrewarding.
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Interesting and amusing to see how a brilliant mind completely detached from the "soul" and "essence" of American popular "culture" strives manfully with a straight face to attach profound significance to manifestations that are in fact trivial and profoundly inane.
Rather reminiscent of France's bizarre reverence for the work of comedian Jerry Lewis –– a fellow whose slapstick antics I have always found both tedious and singularly unrewarding.
rivial and profoundly inane.
...and yet which captures the quintessence of post-modernism.
;p
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