In one of David Lodge's academic satires, didn't someone present a paper
on T.S. Eliot's influence on Shakespeare?
Theresa
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:59:49 -0600 Vivian Ramalingam <vivian@me.umn.edu>
writes:
> It's interesting to read Peter Viereck's _Metapolitics: the Roots of
> the
> Nazi Mind_ (originally _Metapolitics: From the Romantics to Hitler_,
> 1941), to see the political and philosophical connection fleshed
> out.
> But -- in the flesh? With the help of one of Jules Verne's useful
> machines, perhaps; or, the with the skill of the photographer who
> placed
> Wilhelm Furtwangler among a social gathering of Nazi bigwigs, but
> was
> unable to manipulate the forgery sufficiently that WF actually
> looked at
> the person he was supposedly talking to. One didn't need today's
> fancy
> electronics to perpetrate such brazen frauds.
>
> -- Vivian Ramalingam (prefers Schickele to Schickelgruber)
>
> Michael Morse wrote:
> >
> > > I have never imagined that the [Wagner-Hitler] connection would
> be
> > > as visually explicit as in this picture. Any
> > > comments?
> >
> > 'fraid that's only too genuine. Hitler's fanatical enthusiasm
> for
> > Wagner began in adolescence, and continued through to his last
> days on
> > earth, which were filled with a grammophone version of
> > Götterdämmerung. Of late, the conviction has arisen that, since
> Wagner
> > was Hitler's favourite composer, then Hitler must be Wagner's
> > favourite politician. After all, as elementary logic teaches (some
> of)
> > us, if fire causes smoke, then smoke must cause fire, too.
> >
> > MWM
>
>
Theresa Muir
theresamuir@juno.com
Don't say nothin' bad 'bout New York.
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