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Monday, June 12, 2006

Our generation rarely tells compelling stories because we have nothing to tell.

That far-off voice telling of "better days" has arrived. And look how dissatisfied we are by it.

"All America lies at the end of the wilderness road," wrote Wrote T.K. Whipple, quoted in the introduction to Lonesome Dove, "and our past is not a dead past, but lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream."

The estimable author of Amilia Rait Ibid lays bare the truth. And offers the dual-cure.

UPDATE: Julie Neidlinger dissents. It's hard to argue with that Midwestern common sense.


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2 Comments:

Blogger Lois E. Lane said...




What is this supposed to link to?

Monday, June 12, 2006

 
Blogger girlfriday said...




I fixed it. Blogger has been on the fritz lately. I blame it.

Monday, June 12, 2006

 

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