The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or wordmongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites ... will have to admit that the Whites aren’t overburdened with poetic imagination.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French playwright, novelist. Prisoner of Love, pt. 1 (1986, trans. 1989).
