[Zzlist-deux] A Make-Believe Interview with Walt Whitman

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A Make-Believe Interview with Walt Whitman
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*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 **Democratic
Vistas **(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/whitman/vistas/vistas.html
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/whitman/vistas/vistas.html>).
Obviously liberty is taken with the context, though not with the text.*

*Mr. Whitman, would you care to comment on the current state of affairs
existing in the US?*
 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.
 *What, in your opinion, stands behind the “hollowness at heart”?*

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