Jul 4, 2009

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D. H. Lawrence on Benjamin Franklin

Chapter 2 of  Studies in Classic American LiteratureThe Perfectibility of Man! Ah heaven, what a dreary theme! The perfectibility of the Ford car! The perfectibility of which man? I am many men. Which of them are you going to perfect? I am not a mechanical contrivance.Education! Which of the various me’s do you propose to educate, and which do you propose to...

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Jul 2, 2009

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D. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s White Novels

Chapter 4 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureBenjamin Franklin had a specious little equation in providential mathematics:Rum + Savage = 0. Awfully nice! You might add up the universe to nought, if you kept on.Rum plus Savage may equal a dead savage. But is a dead savage nought? Can you make a land virgin by killing off its aborigines ?The Aztec is gone, and the...

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Jun 17, 2009

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. This warrior bard was to have a crucial impact upon the rise of fascism despite his not always being in...

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Jun 6, 2009

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Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West.The Dark Side of the SunSince World War II, the West has forgotten the Shadow soul of...

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Jun 2, 2009

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Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet

Editor’s Note: This article is from National Vanguard, March 1984. The author is not credited. If you know the name of the article’s author and it is appropriate to credit him, please contact me. This version is from Irminsul’s Racial Nationalist Library site.One hundred years ago, in Lahore — today the second city in independent Pakistan but then an...

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May 27, 2009

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Melville’s Typee (1846) and the Case for Civilization

from The Brussels Journal, May 19, 2009My subject is Herman Melville, and more specifically Melville’s case for civilization, but I would like to approach his Typee (1846), where he makes that case, through a preamble having to do with the figure against whose arguments Melville stakes his own: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.IThere is a shadow-side in the Western tradition that takes the...

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May 26, 2009

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“The Great Death-Continent”:
D. H. Lawrence on America

Editor’s Note: The following passage on America is from D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). The Plumed Serpent tells the story of Kate Leslie, an Irish widow of 40, who, to escape her unhappy life, decides to travel to Mexico. She is horrified at Mexico’s ugliness, degeneracy, and backwardness. Eventually she encounters Don Ramon and General...

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May 21, 2009

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The American System vs. the White Race:
D. H. Lawrence on Moby Dick

“What then is Moby Dick? He is the deepest blood-being of the white race; he is our deepest blood-nature.“And he is hunted, hunted, hunted by the maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness. We want to hunt him down. To subject him to our will. And in this maniacal conscious hunt of ourselves we get dark races and pale to help us, red, yellow, and black,...

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May 19, 2009

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D. H. Lawrence on America’s Libertarian Spirit

“Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, Organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild...

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May 12, 2009

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George Orwell on W. B. Yeats as Occult Fascist

“W. B. Yeats” (1943)by George OrwellOne thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between “tendency” and literary style. The subject-matter and imagery of a book can be explained in sociological terms, but its texture seemingly cannot. Yet some such connection there must be. One knows, for instance, that a Socialist would...

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