“For me, the scriptures provided a standard of
authenticity against the pervasive falsehoods of advertising, social
engineering, moral uplift, demagogic politics—all the verbal corruptions of
democracy, the language of illusion.”—Australian-born TV personality, critic
and poet Clive James (1939-2019), “Czeslaw Milosz,” in Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (2007)
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