Literary Interlude
We interrupt your gleeful perusing of the CBS forged documents meltdown to bring you this delightful description of anarchist culture, courtesy of the great Charles Portis in his novel, "The Dog Of The South." I didn't really care for the book - it was a bit of a slog and a real letdown after "True Grit," but I was struck by this bit about an encounter with some radicals down Mexico way:
The Dane never showed up but they had the "seminar" anyway, under some shade trees in a place called the French Park. Jay Bomarr opened it with his famous speech, "Come Dream Along With Me." I had heard it myself, at Ole Miss of all places, back in the days when Jay was drawing big crowds. It was a dream of blood and smashed faces, with a lot of talk about "the people," whose historic duty it was to become a nameless herd and submit their lives to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals. Norma said it went over fairly well with the young Americans and Canadians, judging from the applause. No Mexicans came except for the professor who was chairman of the thing. Dupree was there, standing at the front, and he heckled Jay for awhile. He had a New Year's Eve noisemaker, a ratchet device that he swung around. The flunkies took it away from him and carried him off in the woods and beat him up.
The more that things change, eh? This was written in 1979.