“So
that finally, there is one last thing we should stop doing. We should stop
calling ourselves new. We are not. They were new. We are old, and we have not
necessarily aged as well as we should. To cite Eliot again: he reports himself
as answering someone who objected to, I suppose, Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer
on the grounds that we know more than they did by replying, “yes, we do, and
they are precisely what we know.”
(HOLLIS FRAMPTON. The Invention Without a Future, Edited and annotated by Michael Zryd)
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