[lbo-talk] Bloom gets all excited about Whitman

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
>
> > Wall Street Journal - July 29, 2005
> >
> > Whitman's America
> > By HAROLD BLOOM
> >
> > He is the greatest artist his nation has brought
> > forth. Indeed, no comparable figure in the arts has emerged in the
> > last 400 years in the Americas: North, Central, South, or the
> > Caribbean.
>
>Damn, what a load of imperialist crap, and a dishonor to Whitman, who was
>of course a great poet ...

Not to worry.  I live in Whitman's birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, and 
we know how to do right by the man.  Directly across from the carefully 
preserved Whitman residence is the glorious Walt Whitman Mall, offering 
"nearly 100 of the nation's finest retailers" -- which, during a recent 
upgrade, was equipped with walls bearing random quotes from Leaves of Grass. 

  There is, of course, little grass in the vicinity since the mall is 
surrounded by a gazillion-acre asphalt parking lot and is right near the 
intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Route 110, two of the ugliest 
overdeveloped piece-of-shit commercial strips on L.I.

I sing the appliance electric!

Carl