tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post3894766905375192533..comments2023-07-09T07:45:50.552-07:00Comments on Socialism and/or barbarism: to defile, to debase, to corrupt, to sophisticate, to falsify, to counterfeit, &c.ECWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-31311714233493031632011-01-25T01:05:20.165-08:002011-01-25T01:05:20.165-08:00It has been decidedly way too long since I've ...It has been decidedly way too long since I've read Paterson. Thanks for the reminder.<br /><br />the age of shoddy, without grace or pity.ECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-21673428309339132852011-01-24T23:15:54.490-08:002011-01-24T23:15:54.490-08:00WCW: "Peter Breughel the artist saw it/ from ...WCW: "Peter Breughel the artist saw it/ from the two sides: the/ imagination must be served--/ and he served// dispassionately<br /><br />It is no mortal sin to be poor --anything but this featureless tribe that has the money now--staring into the atom, completely blind--without grace or pity, as if they were so many shellfish. The artist, Breughel, saw them . : the suits of his peasants were of better stuff, hand woven, than we can boast.<br /><br />--we have come in our time to the age of shoddy, the men are shoddy, driven by their bosses, inside and outside the job to be done, at a profit. [...] "that stuff they sell you in the stores now-a-days, no good, break in your hands . that manufactured stuff, from the factory, break in your hands, no care what they turn out" (Book V 225)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com