Doug Henwood wrote:
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> I'm assuming this is a typo for Despair, but I'm curious about the
> Capital - is this some Miltonic evocation, as in "Hail divinest
> Melancholy"?
Damned if I know! I guess it just seemed right at the time.
On the other hand, if one could imagine someone of real progressive politics still self-consciously committing him/herself to the Democratic
Party, the words of Satan on Mount Niphates are of some interest:
All hope excluded thus, behold instead
Of us outcast, exiled, his new delight,
Mankind created, and for him this world.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my good; by thee at least
Divided empire with heavn's king I hold . . . .
(PL 4, 105-11) Of course I can't imagine a Democrat with Satan's level of consciousness.
Carrol