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Article: In search of the American myth.
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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In the Americas, the world before the white man was woven by a spider. But modern America, the white man's America, was born in history, not in pre-history, so we have no gods. The God on the dollar bill is an eyeball, the eye of a camera, watching everything with the relative objectivity of science, for which everything is equally significant. There is no illo tempore where the founding gestures continue unchanged. In fact, change is the only unchanging law.
"What does not change/Is the will to change," said Charles Olson, a poet of oceanic verse who sought to create an epic poem, Maximus, that would contain both the founding mythology of America and its subsequent ...
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