'It was the intrusion of another idiom, an assertion that what passed between these speakers and their audience was beside the point, that elections were decided elsewhere and on other terms.'
Lucid, direct, elevated and true, you will read nothing better on politics this year.
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
I'm sorry Marilynne Robinson is stooping to write about politics. There's nothing transcendent there. All is perishable and tainted, wrapped in lies and promises that won't be kept, ever on the edge of corruption. I mean, we must have a government, but this antic posturing -- campaigning -- that leads up to it is such a hollow show, so much sound and fury signifying nothing other than the ambitions of the participants.
ReplyDeleteGive me wind, water, and stone. So much more real.
Aye aye, Susan, yer bang on.
ReplyDeleteNo point in going to Sandpoint now.
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