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<span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,serif"><span style="color:rgb(184,0,71)"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:small"><i>Walt

Whitman is thought by some to be the US's greatest poet, certainly

the most acclaimed expression of the nation's better spirit. What

follows is a fictional interview with Whitman, with the quotes drawn

from his 1871 </i></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(184,0,71)"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:small"><i><b>Democratic

Vistas

<span style="color:rgb(184,0,71)"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:small">(<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/whitman/vistas/vistas.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/whitman/vistas/vistas.html</a>).

Obviously liberty is taken with the context, though not with the

text.</i></span></span></span></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:black">Mr.

Whitman, would you care to comment on the current state of affairs

existing in the US?</b></span></span></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:black">I

say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face,

like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there,

perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the

United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying

principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this

hectic glow, and these melodramatic screamings,) nor is humanity

itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see

through the mask? The spectacle is appaling. We live in an atmosphere

of hypocrisy throughout.</span></span></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:black"><b>What,

in your opinion, stands behind the “hollowness at heart”?</b></span></span></span></div><br><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">T<i>O READ MORE OF THE POSTING, GO TO: </i><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></span><br></div>