THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION:
FRAGMENT III—"MY INTELLECTUAL LIFE, PART ONE"
FOOTNOTE 26
And so what must have been a lengthy discussion of social class and the author's own family and social-intellectual background survives only in severely fragmented form. Bedford Morris Lin (History Repudiated: Ossification of the American Intelligentsia in the Ante-Penultimate and Penultimate, Beijing, 2113) sees a central theme of the Larsen Papers as being the author's grievous lament at the death of history as an organic element in aesthetics and aesthetic thought. Also see Lin's brilliant exegesis of Larsen's "Fragment V" ("The Significance of Things Unseen"): "Past, Present, and Future as Nothingness, Being, and Nothingness: The Passionate Intensity of Larsen's Aesthetic System" (Studies in Late American Intellectual History, August 2109, pp. 752-775). [Editor]
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