Yeah, it's not an expression of confidence anymore, is it? (Basing this on having read about three Delillo books.)One thing Gus has taught us is that American literature has become as twee and parochial as English literature, serving only as a marker of decline.
One thing Gus has taught us is that American literature has become as twee and parochial as English literature, serving only as a marker of decline.
Would you say americans seem more prone to relying on these codes? Certainly wouldn;t surprise me, but then again I have no frame of reference.
One thing Gus has taught us is that American literature has become as twee and parochial as English literature, serving only as a marker of decline.
isn't there a trend among american alt culture diagnosticians of comparing USA to the Roman Empire? dissecting the decadence, eschatologizing the great looming fall.
yes I think so, some of the ones i've met at parties i sensed there was a default ingratiating quality to how they acted that makes us danes uncomfortable
yeah, much more fun to be at a party where a roomful of brooding social malcontents stand around and stare at the floor.
Yeah - America as the Rome to Britain's Athens. Craner could probably point us to a good essay (perhaps he wrote) about the foolishness of the UK's post-war leaders who thought this and thoroughly endorsed it.isn't there a trend among american alt culture diagnosticians of comparing USA to the Roman Empire? dissecting the decadence, eschatologizing the great looming fall.