httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58
“Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I’d do it again to save lives.” George W. Bush to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 2nd, 2010.
Now both the former president and vice-president of the United States are unequivocally self-confessed war criminals.
Above, a demonstration of waterboarding upon a willing volunteer: and still very, very shocking because the uncontrollable animal fear is instantaneous.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEl6TK4VsI
Here’s Sarah Palin’s tweet of two days ago:
Extreme Greenies: see now why we push “drill, baby, drill” of known reserves & promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it? 6:07 PM Jun 1st via Twitter for BlackBerry®SarahPalinUSA
She is of course lying. Watch Chris Matthews’s report above.
“Alaskan Palin conservatism: big government socialism, masked by pioneer bullshit.”
Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ91G3e0OBQ&feature=related
Deepwater Horizon: deregulated capitalism as waking nightmare — five weeks and counting
“[T]he present system of monopoly capitalism is immoral as well as inefficient”
Frye in the Canadian Forum, March 1947
Wilde in New York City, 1882
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
“What did I learn in school? The most valuable thing by far was grammar. English should be analyzed by the structure of an inflected language, preferably Latin: philosophical as well as literary training.”
Northrop Frye, “Autobiographical Notes”
“I do not recall reading any literary criticism, as opposed to literary biography, until I was an undergraduate. At seventeen I purchased Northrop Frye’s study of William Blake, Fearful Symmetry, soon after its publication. What Hart Crane was to me at ten, Frye became at seventeen, an overwhelming experience. Frye’s influence on me lasted twenty years but came tumbling down on my thirty-seventh birthday, when I awakened from a nightmare and then passed the entire day in composing a dithyramb, “The Covering Cherub or Poetic Influence.” Six years later, that had evolved into The Anxiety of Influence, a book Frye rightly rejected, from his Christian Platonist stance. Now, at seventy-eight, I would not have the patience to reread anything by Frye but I possess almost all of Hart Crane by memory, recite much of it daily and continue teaching him. I came to value other contemporary critics—Empson and Kenneth Burke particularly—but have now dispensed with reading them also. Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Walter Pater, Emerson, Oscar Wilde I go on reading as I do the poets.”
Harold Bloom, “The Point of View for My Work as a Critic: A Dithyramb.” The Hopkins Review 2, no. 1 (Winter 2009), New Series: 28–48.
“A glance at the human situation around us reveals war, famine, arbitrary acts of injustice and exploitation, violence, crime, collapse of moral standards, and so on almost indefinitely. Even in prosperous countries a spiritual barrenness produces innumerable acts of ferocity and despair . How does human life of this kind differ from life in hell? Hell is often supposed to be an after-death state created by God in which people are eternally tortured for finite offences. But this doctrine is merely one more example of the depravity of the human mind that thought it up. Man alone is responsible for hell, and much as he would like to pursue his cruelties beyond the grave, he is blocked from doing so. God’s interest in this hell is confined to “harrowing” or redeeming those who are in it. At the same time there are honesty, love, neighbourliness, generosity, and the creative powers in the arts and sciences. Human life appears to be a mingling of two ultimate realities, which we call heaven and hell. Hell is the world created by man, and heaven, or at least the way to it, is the world created through man by God.”
Frye, The Double Vision (CW 4, 230)
My Frye Google Alert alerted me to a blog entry that reads in part, “this reminds me of something one of the more learned people Canada has ever produced, Northrop Frye, once wrote: education doesn’t make bad people good; it makes them more dangerous.”
Thanks to Bob Denham we have the actual quote from “Wisdom and Knowledge“: “Education makes a bad man more dangerous; it does not make him a better man.” (CW 5, 308)
“Persona or mask: nothing under it except another persona, but still important to know that we are playing roles.” Holograph note Frye scribbled at the end of a typescript of some notes for a talk. 1991 accession, box 36, file 1.
“As Hamlet proves in its soliloquies, we dramatize ourselves to ourselves even when alone.” From Frye’s CRTC report.
