West Podium

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“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“The era of long parades past an official podium filled with cold faces is gone. Celebrating is now a right, not a duty.”
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