Wagner and "Gone with the wind"

"...I wonder, he said, I wonder not only what will become of us at Tara but what will become of everybody in the South.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilisation breaks up.

The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Götterdämmerung.

A what ?

A dusk of Gods.

Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were Gods.

For Heaves'sake, Ashley Wilkes !

Don't stand there and talk nonsense at me when it's us who are going tot be winnowed out !"