Classic American Love

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    The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)