LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Antheil’s opry, and passed thru Munich and from Wien I went up to
Wörgl. And as the young can’t be expected to know my past history I
‘spose I got to preface it.
That I was interested in CIVILIZATION from the age of 12 when I first
saw Venice. Venice looked good to me. Anyhow, I came to Europe to git
kulchur all right, and to a great extent got it. Started in U. Penn. at 15 to
FIND out what had been written, and what was the BEST of it, in as
many languages as I could gil under my occiput; to KNOW what the real
thing was. And thence to HISTORY and economics. To SEE what was
going on in the world TODAY, as I needed it in my business, my
business being WRITIN’, and an Epic being a container of HISTORY.
Of course you need music to understand real versification. But comin’
from a duck-board country, I was interested in LATIN order. Order in
stone work, in paintin’, Adamo me fecit. S. Zeno Verona, architect had
cut that column by HAND, by his own hand, want INTEGRAL,
totalitarian interest in the job of buildin’ S. Zeno. Church of S. Zeno. I
liked Quattro cento paintin’. P. Uccello. First freshman theme, I wrote
was on Paulo Uccello, picture in Louvre I reckon.
Anyhow, apart from Von der Vogelweide, old Schnitz Brandt lettin’ me
jump the prose and come to the osses, the poetry, medieval German
poetry, in 1904 or 5. I didn’t much cotton to German literature, in cf.
with the Mediterranean. Dante, Villon, provençal Canzoni writers;
anyhow, I didn’t cotton to German literature. And then philology,
ERROR of old German university system got my goat. And I laid off
readin’ German till I hit Leo Frobenius.
Also being in England 12 years, I certainly saw the last war from the
Lon don angle. Lump in my throat when I heard even in this one, that
Vimy Ridge had been taken. I could take all the rest of it but, when I
heard Vimy was taken, that was a tough one. BUT JUSTICE IS
JUSTICE. And lies are a poor Ersatz for justice. And as to LYING I