Anne Fadiman Quotes

The Procrustean Bed ... Suggests Itself With Dispiriting Aptness As A Metaphor For The Culture Wars, Right Down To The Blandishments With Which Procrustes Must Have Lured His Guests Over The Threshold. (I Picture Him As A Handsome Fellow With A Large Vocabulary And An Oleaginous Tongue, Not Unlike The Chairmen Of Many English Departments.) There's Just One Crucial Difference. Sometimes Procrustes Lopped Off His Victims, And Sometimes He Stretched Them, But The Culture Wars Always Lop. I Have Never Seen Cultural Politics Enlarge A Work Of Literature, Only Diminish It.

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