Thanksgiving
he finally got to hunker down and get into Hofstadters Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
won the Pulitzer for Non-Fiction in 1964
sixty years later still apropos
what he enjoyed were Hofstaders copious footnotes
was gaga for footnotes
also why David Foster
Wallace enthused him
the obscure that lurked in them were very
appealing
and yet despite their obscurity their
words continue to ring vibrantly true
for one never truer than today
Jack Schwartzman Natural Law and the Campus
“The
rebirth of idealism must come from the scattered monasteries of non-collegiate
thought.”
the monasteries of the American hinterlands
while they may think so
rather
he thought them
monstrosities
1456, Thursday – Thanksgiving, 27 11.
25
1058, reggaefriday,
28 11. 25
The Freeman Jack Schwartzman pg21 https://cdn.mises.org/Freeman51-12_3.pdf
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