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Lady Macbeth vs. Billy Budd
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:00 am Post subject: Lady Macbeth vs. Billy Budd |
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 Lady Macbeth vs. Billy Budd
By Joseph EpsteinWhether the outcome of last Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary is good or bad for the Democratic Party isn't of great interest to me. My stake in the continuing contest is entirely personal, and has to do with my mental hygiene, which it is ruining.
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By Joseph EpsteinWhether the outcome of last Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary is good or bad for the Democratic Party isn't of great interest to me. My stake in the continuing contest is entirely personal, and has to do with my mental hygiene, which it is ruining.I'm thoroughly hooked by the campaign, turned into a one-subject news junkie. I have only to see the names "Obama" or "Clinton" atop an editorial or news article, or hear the phrase "Campaign 2008" on television, and I am gone, as lost as an adolescent boy reading his first pornographic novel. I cannot seem to get enough print, television, chat or highly repetitive schmooze on this subject. What's the attraction?The contest pits Hillary Clinton's empty though fierce ambition against Barack Obama's naïve yet carefully orchestrated idealism. It's like Yale's Lady Macbeth versus Harvard's Billy Budd. As long as I'm tossing around literary allusions, perhaps John McCain might be compared to Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener: When it comes to expanding government, he really "would prefer not to."I have always considered the Clintons as little more than a branch of William Faulkner's Snopes family, in their cases Snopeses who have given high SAT scores a bad name. I don't find it easy to imagine how anyone outside her immediate family could find Mrs. Clinton, in her bouncy campaign persona - Hubert Humphrey in drag - appealing.
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