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It became relentless: that critical voice, and the burden of thousands of years of literary accomplishment. My relationship to the world was embroiled in this anxiety, too, and it struck me that the current century’s relentless presentism was a clear defense against the very same kind of anxiety. Overwhelmingly, contemporary literature and media seemed incapable of admitting to the power of the past. True, young people have always resented being told what to read, but the current fashion was to say they were right—right to bristle at the idea that there were works and histories they would have to live up to if they wanted to be great. It seemed obvious that this mass inability to square up to the inheritance and influence of the past was what really lay behind the sterility of contemporary arts and letters—a sterility many contemporary writers and artists would not even acknowledge.