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Walker James
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"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of those contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle."
Is this still true? I don't think Americans revel in contradiction anymore. We seem to blot out complexity in public.
— Apr 13, 2020 11:30AM
Is this still true? I don't think Americans revel in contradiction anymore. We seem to blot out complexity in public.
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Walker James
is on page 141 of 192
"The place was run by an ancient Frenchman dressed in an elegant black suit which was green with age, who cannot properly be described as bewildered or even as being in a state of shock, since he had really stopped breathing around 1910."
I love how much Baldwin seems to despise Paris. This is the second essay so far in which he destroys American mythos about Paris.
— Jul 17, 2020 10:55AM
I love how much Baldwin seems to despise Paris. This is the second essay so far in which he destroys American mythos about Paris.
Walker James
is on page 141 of 192
"From the vantage point of Europe, he discovers his own country."
Found Giovanni's Room.
— Jul 14, 2020 11:36AM
Found Giovanni's Room.
