MODO STUMBLES INTO AN APT COMPARISON:

Port Mortuary’s Pull (MAUREEN DOWD, 11/01/09, NY Times)

Barack Obama, the wunderkind who came out of nowhere to win the presidency, was supposed to push America out of the ditch and into a glittering future. But modernity is elusive when you’re in a time machine to the 14th century called Afghanistan. The tableau of Obama at Dover evoked the last line of “The Great Gatsby:” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

"Jay Gatsby", who invented an identity for himself to abet his social climbing, cuts mighty close to the bone.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 1, 2009 7:56 AM