Monday, July 09, 2012

Profiles in Uncourage

HOW WOULD THEY REACT?

IS THERE ONE HONEST WRITER IN THE ESTABLISHED LITERARY WORLD?

How would the established literary community react if the defunct Underground Literary Alliance web site was not only up, with its “Monday Report” looks at literary misdeeds again available to read—but began as well to publish new essays targeting literary corruption? Would many in the standard lit world applaud? Would any of them? Or would not they continue their 100% stonewalling, putting blindfolds over their eyes, plugs in their ears, and gags in their mouths to follow the mandated line of “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil”? I can’t say I’ve encountered one person in their ranks—not one!—who has a shred of intellectual courage involving their own field. It’s forever go-along-to-get-along. This includes the self-proclaimed Leftists among them, who all seem to be graduates of places like Brown, Harvard, and Oxford, and are just as careful to blackball the idea and history of the ULA as is anyone else.

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