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Otto English

25 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read

My hot Cummings take was always that he didn't have an overarching super objective. Eternal student anarchist who claimed he wanted to tear everything down but had no idea of what to put up in its place. Millions of people like that. Difference is - he got the chance to do it.

This was me on Cummings in January 2020. Jim Stark is James Dean's character in Rebel without a cause and I reckon I nailed it frankly. For once.

Anyway the answer lies in a single blog apparently. So I'll be diving back into that one tomorrow. Watch this space.

One person can never have all the answers. The people who think they do are potentially very dangerous indeed.

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