True, but that was after a lot of water had flowed under the revolutionary bridge. Sometimes things just have to run their course.
For instance, the Sunni tribes weren’t ready to work with us to fight AQ until they’d had a taste of what they were really like.
In “La Rabouilleuse,” Balzac has one of the characters, a grocer, get guillotined on the same day as the poet Andre Chenier. It was the closest conjunction ever of poetry and the grocery business, according to Balzac.
Of course, that was before Ginsberg’s poem on Walt Whitman in the supermarket.