There's a great remark in here that is a crucial observation about the inflection point down in American cultural life from a perspective of the old New England world: "I am not erudite. I do not regret this lack of discipline, but I do admire erudition in my colleagues. Of course, I am not uninformed. That can be accounted for by the fact that I was raised in the tag end of cultural New England. Everybody in the family was painting and writing and singing and especially reading, which was a fairly common and accepted means of communication in New England at the turn of the decade." Imagine the shock if he were around now observing the scene?
There's a great remark in here that is a crucial observation about the inflection point down in American cultural life from a perspective of the old New England world: "I am not erudite. I do not regret this lack of discipline, but I do admire erudition in my colleagues. Of course, I am not uninformed. That can be accounted for by the fact that I was raised in the tag end of cultural New England. Everybody in the family was painting and writing and singing and especially reading, which was a fairly common and accepted means of communication in New England at the turn of the decade." Imagine the shock if he were around now observing the scene?
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