"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
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Edmund WilsonMay 8, 1895 to June 12, 1972 Born in Red Bank, New Jersey & Died in Talcottville, New York Writer and critic whose depth and breadth of knowledge were both impressive and demoralizing. Compared to Edmund Wilson, you and I are barely literate. (Trust me, you are not indulging in false modesty when you admit that I'm right.)
Quote". . . I do not know how we are going to be saved from the dominance of mediocrity . . ." Off-Site ResourceAn Archive Of Articles About Edmund Wilson From The New York Times
BibliographyAxel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870 - 1930 — 1931 The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects - 1938 To the Finland Station - 1940 Memoirs of Hecate County - 1946 (novel) Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece & England, Together with Notes From a European Diary: 1963 - 1964 — 1967 (first part originally from 1948) Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties - 1950 Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls - 1955 (the Scrolls from the Dead Sea was published in 1955, this is a later combined edition) A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty - 1956 American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties - 1958 Apologies to the Iroquois with a Study of the Mohawk in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell - 1960 Night Thoughts - 1961 (poetry) Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War - 1962 The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest - 1963 The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950 - 1965 — 1965 O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture - 1965 Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York - 1971 A Window on Russia - 1972 The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period - 1975 The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period - 1980 The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period - 1983 The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period - 1986 The Sixties: The Last Journal: 1960 - 1972 — 1993
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