04-14-2021, 02:35 AM
As with everything, magpiety is involved. I steal, and I transfigure. My avowed Regionalism steals from The Southern Agrarian ideas of Tate and Red Warren and the rest. I had the idea first, they just died before I knew about it. So, as is my way, I go back in time to make sure all my ideas are original; it's not pretty. However. . . .
Was it before or after World War II that anyone supported Hitler? That is apparently an issue with some people. Before America joined the war, I mean, and all that about the Jews was clearer. All of these sequences of events and implications are championed and denied by people who weren't here there or anywhere.
Allen Tate said that his culture was the dominant one currently, and that it wouldn't make sense for him to want to diminish his own livelihood. What else he said about these things, I don't know.
I wasn't even there when he said that much.
He worked out these issues in his art and in his relationships. As we all do. A mind has as many beliefs as a bible has interpretations. It makes perfect sense to be racist and nonracist at the same time, as it does to have cancer and be not too thrilled about it. Even H. P. Lovecraft dug far into the innerEarth-cosmic depths of bigotry and hatred, and found the worth of the Other before the end. The life versus the work is the thing. They are the same. Agonizing agonistic love and acceptance and wrestling matches.
See, I just had it out with Allen Tate, and made short work of him. So much for the Confederate dead.
Was it before or after World War II that anyone supported Hitler? That is apparently an issue with some people. Before America joined the war, I mean, and all that about the Jews was clearer. All of these sequences of events and implications are championed and denied by people who weren't here there or anywhere.
Allen Tate said that his culture was the dominant one currently, and that it wouldn't make sense for him to want to diminish his own livelihood. What else he said about these things, I don't know.
I wasn't even there when he said that much.
He worked out these issues in his art and in his relationships. As we all do. A mind has as many beliefs as a bible has interpretations. It makes perfect sense to be racist and nonracist at the same time, as it does to have cancer and be not too thrilled about it. Even H. P. Lovecraft dug far into the innerEarth-cosmic depths of bigotry and hatred, and found the worth of the Other before the end. The life versus the work is the thing. They are the same. Agonizing agonistic love and acceptance and wrestling matches.
See, I just had it out with Allen Tate, and made short work of him. So much for the Confederate dead.