Reading of Bill Hopkins' rare article from 1957, in which he expounds his ideas regarding the inherent power of Western literature in contrast to the dearth of valuable literary content at mid-century. His critique involved an almost total dismissal of all modern literature of the twentieth century (as my own feelings concur with that theme as the twentieth century moves into the twenty first century). I will continue my thoughts on Bill Hopkins in a future podcast on his novel 'The Divine and the Decay'.and relate the content of the novel back to this material. You can find 'The Divine and the Decay'/'The Leap' at archive.org