Snapshot Series : Post-2012 Election — “The GOP’s Moment For Self-Resuscitation”
“. . . in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. At that hour the tendency is to refuse to face things as long as possible by retiring into an infantile dream — but one is continually startled out of this by various contacts with the world. One meets these occasions as quickly and carelessly as possible and retires once more back into the dream, hoping that things will adjust themselves by some great material or spiritual bonanza. But as the withdrawal persists there is less and less chance of the bonanza — one is not waiting for the fade-out of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one’s own personality…” F. Scott Fitzgerald, 19361
Lyrics above from “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads
“Soul-searching has one requirement above all,
one must have a soul to search.”
Michael Matthew Bloomer,
Snapshot Series : Post-2012 Election —
“The GOP’s Moment For Self-Resuscitation”,
They Will Say ANYTHING!, Nov. 19, 2012,
three o’clock. in the morning
Google “GOP soul search from Nov. 6 to Nov. 19, 2012”
- The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, serialized, February, March, April, 1936. ↩
