American Identity
Democratic Writing
"If a speaker or writer has packed a sound bit well, it will unpack well” (Allen, p. 148)
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
PROLEPSIS
Allusions, quotations -- and fake quotations.
Jefferson's library
The text of the Declaration
Locke on the laws of nature
The real Abraham Lincoln on Euclid and the Declaration:
One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.The movie version (look carefully for a now-famous actor playing one of the soldiers):
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