On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> My 17-year-old is mopey a lot of the time. I asked her why, and she
> replied,
> "Everything's dead!"
>
> "What do you mean?"
>
> "Everything's been done! Music, art, film. Politics sucks. It's all
> dead."
>
> She said she didn't envy my age (who would?), but that I was around
> when
> punk first hit, and was old enough to remember the hippies, etc.
> Today, it's
> all rehash. I can see her point, kinda.
Hey, Harold Bloom wrote about this in the early 70s. Even belatedness is belated.
Doug