28.11.25


still slipslidinround in Anti-Intellectualism of American Life he found this footnoted beaut

Congressman George Dondero Michigan in warped times of either 14June 1946 or 16August 1949 or 17March 1952  The Congressional Record

                                              “The art of the isms . . . Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Futurism, other movements in art . . . truly have no place in America . . . All are weapons of destruction.”

to be scarcelyfair to a man who was concerned for alleged communism in the arts
                                                                                        he was born in 1886

reading that he rolled back in his seat couldnt help but wonder how maybe mid-Twentieth Century Michigan was considered a hinterland Congressman Dondero would define creative imagination and expression  destructive

    Dondero  hardboiled brain
                                 whichWhoa reminded him he bought was treating himself organic Jumbo eggs

he had a hankering for soft-boiled eggs to nosh before bed where Sebalds Silent Catastrophes waited

couldnt find a more compelling text to read to spit in the eye of those who suffered verklempt Yiddish  emotionally overcome by intellect     

1456,  Thursday – Thanksgiving,  27  11. 25
1237,  reggaefriday,  28  11. 25
Simon & Garfunkel  The Sound of Silence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0 or Disturbed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 

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