The Southern Agrarians were, as a bunch, hideous Southron
Sentimentalists. Warren, Tate and Ransom eventually distanced
themselves from the movement; the worst supported Fascism. Let's call
a spade a spade here: most of these guys were racists, and probably
regretted the end of slavery. But, hey, they opposed modernism, so
that's OK then.
One can treat servants, slaves etc well. Doesn't mean they're not
servants or slaves, though, treated with all the sickening
patronisation - or should that be "chivalry" - of the antebellum. I'm
sure they all thought they were doing well by their protegees, and the
latter in return thought well of their masters. It still doesn't mean
that I can't abhor the system. Doesn't mean that I can't object, or
feel slightly nauseous when I find remnants of this fine, upstanding
system shoved under my nose, particularly when it wasn't even that
good a piece of poetry in the first place.
A couple of years ago, I saw Steve Earle (http://steveearle.net/bio/)
play at Glastonbury. Some dick-heads, fuck-wits and morons had erected
a CSA flag at the back of the tent and were shouting "ye-ah" or
whatever it is they heard from the films. Steve went ape-shit at them
for a good 2 minutes.
Roger
On 1/20/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Nice try, Stephen but The Gentleman is too much of a snobby SOB to
> > ev-ah touch a keyboard. Instead, you'd probably find his black
> > man-servant doing it for him.
> Probably true, Roger. I was always equated the Agragarians (Tate, Ransome,
> etc.) as naturally being involved in Southern Agriculture, its heritage and
> 'natural' disposition to hire help with 'color'. All treated -those
> in-house, at least - with much kindness, etc.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
> > Roger
> >
> > On 1/19/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:41:04 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Be curious to re-contextualize the Ransome piece into the world of
> >>> WWW.Match.com
> >>
> >> I don't think you'll find The Gentleman on the net.
> >>
> >
>
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