On Jan 30, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> andie wrote:
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>> Yeats said the same sort of thing in his borderline modernist
>> Slouching
>> Towards Bethlehem: the center cannot hold. There is no center.
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> Dr. Melfi: "Every new idea makes things worse. The center cannot
> hold. The falcon cannot hear the falconer."
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> Tony Soprano: "What the fuck are you talking about?"
And as I've pointed out before, according to Harold Bloom's book on Yeats (my copy of which was claimed by the first wife), Yeats's sympathies here are fascist.
Doug