{"id":191,"date":"2005-01-20T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/20\/stephen-crane-has-the-last-word-on-dowd\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:49:06","slug":"stephen-crane-has-the-last-word-on-dowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2005\/01\/20\/stephen-crane-has-the-last-word-on-dowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Crane has the last word on Dowd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
I\u2019m not going to write about her, because <\/span>she\u2019s just too screwed up and pathetic and sad<\/span><\/a> and I feel sorry for her. But Drew over at <\/span>Darn Floor<\/span><\/a> has both the energy and the intestinal fortitude to give the woman a thumping good fisking. He throws in some round mocking for good measure.\n

I frankly think nothing else needs to be said about Mo Dowd, because Stephen Crane said it a century ago \u2013 as though he\u2019d glimpsed her through vellum, or through the distance and fog of a hundred years, and left us her song: <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
In the Desert<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/span>In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, \u201cIs it good, friend?\u201d
\u201cIt is bitter \u2013 bitter\u201d, he answered,
\u201cBut I like it<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.\u201d
<\/em><\/span><\/span>Stephen Crane, 1899<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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