In a strong sense, the Old Right and the New Left are morally and politically coordinate. - Carl Oglesby

When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?

What Heller finally offers us super-sensitive Westerners is a contemporary world in which we may ignore what threatens us, ... a world in which the summons to partisanship has been muffled if not ridiculed by a nihilism which has recently discovered gaiety, a despair which has learned to frolic in the ruins of a certain hope.

Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.