a growing paucity of content
feels kinda oxymoronic
it was Bloch in Czechoslovakia who volunteered fulsome affadavits for the Moscow trials
the tradition handed down to the present by the 'progressive' epochs of the past was a set of compelling norms, a mortmain that literary legatees must honour on pain of disinheritance
[...] The idea that there are 'non-political' forms of criticism is simply a myth which furthers certain political uses of literature all the more effectively. [...] It is a distinction between different forms of politics--between those who subscribe to the doctrine that history, society and human …
