Re: virtue terrorists

On Aug 25, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote:

We’ve been here before, too. Reason is a pretty weak weapon
against fear-based emotion.

        "The best lack all conviction/
         The worst are full of passionate intensity"

As I’ve pointed out before, Harold Bloom says that that passage was
an expression of Yeats’s fascist sympathies.

Doug

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