"But Dan Wilgus setting type on proclamations of rebellion, and Buck Titus distributing them at night on a motorcycle, may be as romantic as Xanadu . . . living in a blooming epic, right now, but no Homer come up from the city room yet to write it down!"
Musings of Doremus Jessup.
Epic elevates the sordid realities of human life - specifically, of political life - into dignity and beauty.
Even the lives of us vulgar, contemptible, and bug-ridden, naked apes.
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