Wyndham Lewis -- a truculent, nihilist insult comedian who liked using slurs for their shock value -- is far closer to the modern right than that snivelling Tory nostalgist T.S. Eliot.
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This is what drove me out of Modernism studies; Lewis was the effective ideologist, Eliot the faux-Anglican who sustained it w/his literary reputation
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Well, tax day is in the cruelest month...
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Somehow I have a hard time believing conservatives would ever view T.S. Eliot as their role model considering his poetry inspired this:pic.twitter.com/Na7f6J4Ba8
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Anyone who can title a book "Snooty Baronet" can't be all bad. But I always get him mixed up with Sinclair Lewis.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. TS Elliot
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hemingway said lewis had the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist
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