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nostalgia for articulateness is strange: i watched a really bad film about crossword puzzles recently--wordplay--which featured a few segments during which bill clinton talked about his fascination with and devotion to crosswords--i felt a twinge of near-nostalgia for him during these segments, simply because he seemed intelligent and could talk articulately about stuff that actually interested him. quite a constrast rightwing one-dimensionality of what followed--quite different from the one-dimensional partyspeak characteristic of conservative talking heads in general, who in the main operate using types of language that seem modelled on leninism more than anything else (the "wooden language" of the party)....
but i didnt forget for all that that clinton was an appalling centrist politically (not at all the left militant that the inhabitants of conservativeland like to imagine him to be)---same would apply to cuomo. hell, the same applies to most of the horses who have launched themselves into the early stages of this very long sporting event that is the election cycles--because constructing brand loyalty takes times and repetition--and because politics in the states is a kind of shopping, brand loyalty is important. it's what gets you elected.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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