“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine
a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we
have always been, insofar as we are Americans
at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
Monday, June 6, 2011
Today's Quotation
Today we have an idea (with which I happen to agree) expressed by the great literary critic Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003):
“To be an American (unlike being English or
French or whatever) is precisely to imagine
a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we
have always been, insofar as we are Americans
at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine
a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we
have always been, insofar as we are Americans
at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
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