"A man's intelligence is his soil." - WS
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent" - WB
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd" -WB
"The Sun must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be in the difficulty that it is to be." - WS
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Braindead Megaphone
It's a great essay by George Saunders. The bit about the imagination and war is uncannily similar to Wallace Stevens' "Prose Statement on the Poetry of War". Either derived or just arrived at the same conclusion.
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