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Entry: Bloomberg: New York's Nibelung Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/bloomberg_new_yorks_nibelung#7169 Post contents: It's odd that Americans are back to where we were in the 1820s, when an Englishman asked, rhetorically, "Who reads an American novel or attends an American play," or words to that effect. (We can modify that to exclude those under duress, since out culture is ubiquitous, and apply it today.) Why is it that Communism couldn't so harm the Russian soul enough to stop Solzehenetsyn and Pasternak from writing great novels, but ease, comfort and success have ennervated my beloved country? Sent at: 2008 07 09