Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, December 02, 2004


Why shouldn't the dreadful decline of Iris Murdoch serve as an allegory for our larger culture? Just as a writer had to use simpler words and sentences in the face of an awful disease, so our culture is dumbing itself down -- for no better reason than to further admire itself in an increasingly distorted funhouse mirror.

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