The Life of Donald Draper-AMC’s Mad Men

A critical, but possibly lost-over-the-head theme in this episode is the reference to Frank O’Hara’s ‘Mayakovsky’ found in the collection, ‘Meditations in an Emergency’.  Not very much attention is paid, in this early season episode, to the significance of this recitation:
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
The country [...]

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