Can you believe that? I was shocked.
That was a return--with floridity--to American paranoid thought with a Jewish twist. Worldwide scope. Conehead saw Signs of the coming Apocalypse in Scotland. Scotland! The comic absurdity of the Apocalypse rearing from the Presbyterian kirks, well, paranoids see nothing comic or absurd in their thoughts. Three days after "The Great Unraveling" was published the "time of breakup" unraveled when those signing Scots voted no against the dissolution of "the most successful union in history," Great Britain. Which doesn't matter to paranoids.
The outbreak of Ebola was a Sign. The containment of Ebola was not a counter-sign. There never are counter-signs to the paranoid. They just ignore them.
"Democracy looked quaint and out-moded." Where? In Europe. Where?!
"It was a time of disorientation. Nobody connected the dots or read Kipling on life’s few certainties: 'The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire / And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.'”
That was a return--with floridity--to American paranoid thought with a Jewish twist. Worldwide scope. Conehead saw Signs of the coming Apocalypse in Scotland. Scotland! The comic absurdity of the Apocalypse rearing from the Presbyterian kirks, well, paranoids see nothing comic or absurd in their thoughts. Three days after "The Great Unraveling" was published the "time of breakup" unraveled when those signing Scots voted no against the dissolution of "the most successful union in history," Great Britain. Which doesn't matter to paranoids.
The outbreak of Ebola was a Sign. The containment of Ebola was not a counter-sign. There never are counter-signs to the paranoid. They just ignore them.
"Democracy looked quaint and out-moded." Where? In Europe. Where?!
"It was a time of disorientation. Nobody connected the dots or read Kipling on life’s few certainties: 'The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire / And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.'”
That is worth a stand-alone repeat:
The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.
Really: If you were a college professor and got that as an essay from a student, what would you do? I'd call the Student Health Services hotline, first. The New York Times' editors published it. "Interesting, Roger!"
The New York Times is permitting its writers to give voice to their mental and emotional disturbances through the medium of the newspaper's prized columns. That is disturbing.
Really: If you were a college professor and got that as an essay from a student, what would you do? I'd call the Student Health Services hotline, first. The New York Times' editors published it. "Interesting, Roger!"
The New York Times is permitting its writers to give voice to their mental and emotional disturbances through the medium of the newspaper's prized columns. That is disturbing.
