On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 Doug Henwood wrote:
> > Echoes of Yeats' "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are
> > full of passionate intensity
> >
> > Though according to Harold Bloom, this is a fascist sentiment.
Do you happen to remember what his argument was? Because off hand that doesn't seem like an idea a fascist would subscribe to. Fascists were big believers in passionate intensity and they thought it was precisely the best who were animated by it.
Michael