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REVISION
I’m revising my new book of short stories and hopefully my last on the Holocaust. I think it has some measure of character to it but I’m not sure. I believe the stories in which I allowed my fantasy to take over may be the better ones, again who knows. I may be strident in a few of them, trying too hard. In any case revision sometimes involves when to drop a story completely. I’ve done that and it hurts. Sometimes I feel I have a paragraph or phrase that has come from the mouth of the muse herself and it is…
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LEVIATHAN — WORKING-THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST
Sitting downstairs is the first good draft of the above titled book. Coming in about 185 pages, it contains about 20 or more original stories written since I thought about writing such a book, I believe, in May 2009. Jane will do the first reading of it, writing notes for her promised introduction to the book as well as suggestions of what to keep in and what to drop from the collection. I tried all kinds of writerly approaches in this work, from traditional stories to the avant garde. I have one story in which the character tells me, the author,…
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Brave New World!
I find it eye-popping to observe the shared ignorance we are seeing at these town hall meetings. Many of our fellow Americans (yahoos, in effect) vomit the word socialism continuously when I know damn well they have no idea of what it means nor are they in the slightest degree aware of the honorable and progressive history of socialistm in 19th century Europe. I want to ask the most heated of them to name one socialist in history if they can. If it were not for W.W.I, the advent of socialism would have continued. So we have these schmucks using socialism because…
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Pseudo-truths,Truths,Lies, and Dissembling about Adolf Hitler
1. He liked reading the works of Karl May, a German author of stories about the American West. 2. Hitler modeled his moustache after Charlie Chaplin who he mistakenly thought to be Jewish. 3. His superior officer in W.W.I was a Jew. 4. He detested Goerring. 5. Hiler had few if any close friends or confidants. Goebbels was someone who he could “confide” in. 6. He disliked birthday cake. 7. Hitler frequently washed his hands throughout the day. 8. He enjoyed the “Mountain” films of Leni Riesenthal, the woman director, giving her permission to film the 1936 Olympics. 9. His…