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PARTISAN REVIEW
out citizen's papers in England, because America had not yet gone
into the War. It never seems to have occurred to him that in
The
Ivory Tower
he had been much closer to contemporary realities than
in becoming an English citizen, that the partnership of Betterman and
Gaw was a European phenomenon, too-any more than it ever oe-
cp-'red to him that the class antagonisms of
The Princess Casamassima
-his response to the depression of the eighties-must
inevitably
appear again. But as Hyacinth Robinson died of the class struggle,
so Henry James died of the War.
When the world swings back to sense
(But the world is
so
damned dense)
An indisputably aryan
Jeffersonian Agrarian
Will be settn awn the Ole Rail Fence,
DIXIE DOODLE
In the region of the Tee Vee Aye,
Of the cedars and the sick red clay,
We've discovered a solution
Neither hearstian nor rooshian
In the embers of a burnt-out day.
Swaying lightly with a hot cawn bun,
Quoting Horace and the late Jawn Donne,
He will keep the annual figgers
Safe away from the eyes of niggers,
And back his Culture up with whip and gun:
And in every single solitary region
We'll each frame our millenium
In a native-hewn proscenium
Unbedunged by any nonindigenous pigeon.
JAMES AGEE
