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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Plying Very Strange Cargo
On the back cover of the paperback edition of My Pilgrim’s Progress, George Trow’s second, and ultimately fatal, attempt to trace the line of Western Culture’s post-war descent into inanity, there is a blurb by the literary pundit, Sven Birkerts, that embodies the root of that inanity with uncanny perfection.
It reads: Trow models the thrilling [...]
