[lbo-talk] anti-Martha screed

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 8 16:59:57 PST 2004



>... Martha Stewart grew up the second of six children in a dysfunctional,
>tension-filled family of working class Polish-Americans. Her entire
>childhood was spent teetering on poverty's edge in a cramped row house in
>the Newark suburb of Nutley, N.J. ...
>
>Martha yearned desperately for something better than this for herself....

"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning —

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Carl

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