Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:
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> > the center cannot hold (tip o' the hat to the Yeats poem)
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> As I've said before, Harold Bloom reads that passage as evidence of Yeats's fascist sympathies. I could quote the text, but I lost the book in the divorce.
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> Doug
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Bloom is probably right. I'm reasonably sure that the "roubh beast" is Red, which Yeats hopes fascism will protect us from. But I can't support this. Too bad Doug can't qutote the text.
Carrol