>The article seemed banal, but the subject line is interesting. _Of
>course_ one can COMPARE the current u.s. to fascism, just as one can
>compare oranges to apples _as fruits_ or belts to suspenders (u.s. not
>british sense) _as modes of holding up trousers_ or shotguns to 22s _as
>modes of shooting rabbits_.
...listen: I know Matthew Arnold is not
far off: he's going to come roaring out of the woods, deeply offended by the briars and limber limbs, and mount up on a high stone chair and declaim to the woods: he's going to
reinaugurate the distinctions and subordinations that make sense: he's going to turn the lofty lofty and broad and force the minuscule into its residence...
-A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion, section 30