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alone had the true mask, he lacked
the critical intelligence, and was
prospective. You are the antitheti–
cal men, and your time is forward,
the conflict is more declared, it is
you to hold the mirror up to au–
thority, behind our respect for
which lay a disrespect for democ–
racy as we were acquainted with it.
A slogan will not suffice.
·
It is a simple thing I ask as I
might question a beggar who stop–
ped me for a coin. It is the use,
the use you make of us.
Are you a court to accept and/or
reject JEFFERSON AND/OR
MUSSOLINI, indict GUIDE TO
CULTURE and write a better,
brief me contrary ABCs, charge
why
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CANTOS betrays your
country, that poem which concerns
itself so much with the men who
made your Revolution for you? I
have said I often found there
brightly printed kings, queens,.
knaves but have never discovered
why all the suits could not be dealt
out in some quite different order.
What do you find, a traitor?
Dean Swift says in a meditation
on a woman who pal.nts a dying
face,
Matter as wise logicians sa,,
Cannot without a form subsist;
And form, say
I
as well as they,
Must fail, if matter brings no
grist.
What have you to help you hold
in a single thought reality and
justice?
CHARU:S OLSON
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