erickson-disengaged

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The nation was so utterly disengaged from its own politics that in the course of this campaign America had become a secret unto itself… All of America had gone underground living out a subterranean psychic life of which the country’s politics knew nothing.

Thought:

“The best kind of book is the open-ended book where anything can happen. I hate a book which has one premise, and the writer sticks to that premise so tightly that the writer has no room to breathe — the reader has no room to breathe.”

Stanley Elkin

Christian Molenaar