[lbo-talk] Re: phillip wylie defense committee

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no7/wylie.html
> ...All the topographical and physical dreadfulness of America is lumped 
> here, with only the relief of a few façades, a dome or two, and the 
> sterile square obelisk dedicated to the founder. It is a forever dug-up 
> city on a dirty river, unrelated in position to other cities, detached 
> from trade and science, and ridden with the most dank and melancholy 
> climate on the continent. As cities must, it expresses the approach to 
> life of most of those who stay in it, and sensitive men who get there are 
> consumed with a will to find excuses for getting away. Only the center of 
> this sepulcher is whited; the necrosis of the rest shows forth 
> shamelessly all the yellows, greens, browns, putrid reds, and 
> indecipherable purples which are the colors of decay. Without refinement, 
> dignity, or a sense of itself either as an entity or a necessary 
> expression of other than America's worst, it is a painted boneyard.*