
La historiadora de Harvard, Jill Lepore, ha reparado en los amores y las lecturas del joven Barack, cuando era alumno de Edward Said en Columbia. Por entonces Obama no sólo escribía y publicaba poemas en una revista estudiantil -uno de los poemas, titulado "Pop", estaba inspirado en la figura de Mick Jagger- sino que leía acuciosamente "The Wasteland" de T. S. Eliot. Esto escribía el actual presidente a su novia Alex McNear, en aquella fase de radicalismo juvenil:
"Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Munzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on "Tradition and the Individual Talent", as well as "Four Quartets", when he's less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak".
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