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A month ago, Levi's announced that it would be closing 11 of its plants and laying off one-third of its North American work force, an astounding step for a company renowned for what its CEO called "long-term brand building, corporate social responsibility, and community involvement."
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
P laying by Heart has the strident psuedosophistication of a late-night dorm room colloquy as dramatized by a sophomore busy congratulating himself for having more insight into love than all the incoming freshmen.
"The characters keep laying into each other, as if to slam home the message--for what it's worth--that everybody hurts sometime" (Lane).
That's me at the dice table, baby,Betting come, little joe, and yo,Blowing the coals, laying thunder,My foot on top a fifty dollar chipSome drunk spilled on the floor,Dishonest me, evener of scores,Eager accepter of the extra change,Hotel towel pilferer, coffee spoonLifter, fervent retailer of others'Humor, blackhearted gossiper,Poisoner at the well, dwellerIn unsavory detail, delighted sayerOf the vulgar, off course belierOf the true me, empiric builderNewly haircutted, stickerer-upFor pals, jam unpriser, medicTo the self-inflicted, attorneyTo the self-indicted, petty accountantAnd keeper of the double books,Great divider of the universeAnd all its forms of existenceInto its relationship to me,Fellow trembler to the future,Thin air gawker, apprehenderOf the frameless door.
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