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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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sent ’em out, but not OUT enough. With of course reference to<br />

Cromwell, and the French revolution and the role played by kikes in the<br />

French Revolution. And where all that happens to us, where it concerns<br />

us, why it is not all old lace and retrospect, embalmed and perfumed<br />

with lavendar.<br />

What I would like to do in these talks is to arouse curiosity, even ten<br />

cents’ worth or two bucks’ worth of those rare virtues: intellectual<br />

awareness and curiosity. Alice James, the Great Henry’s sister,<br />

complained that we Americans would not show moral indignation, that<br />

is, at times when she would get all set for having an American show<br />

moral indignation the American would just fold up and not do it.<br />

Of course, the James family warn’t exactly English or exactly American.<br />

In fact some of ’em come from Ulster, which explains a lot of the<br />

mystery that has hitherto enveloped their peculiar reactions, if you can<br />

[explain] Ulster Irish.<br />

I take it I sometimes do display some sort of indignation. But I can’t get<br />

up indignation over some things. I mean, ever since I started writin’,<br />

people have called me in to give opinion as to what to do for their<br />

relatives, when they got a bit queer in the head. Just like Cheever in<br />

Paris. My old concierge saying: what, Monsieur, you spend all your time<br />

locking [up] lunatics? People think, because one writes poetry, that one<br />

knows about people’s heads? So that I have on occasion conferred with<br />

pathologists. And when a man comes out and says: NO American boy<br />

shall be sent out to fight outside the country. Then a few months or a<br />

year later, you hear him holler: Millyums of American soldiers are in all<br />

parts of the globe, ain’t it wunnerfuuuulll! Am I expected to display<br />

moral indignation! Two hundred corpses floatin’ about in the sea off the<br />

harbor of Cadiz? Whaaaa, only 200, why in a year or so there’ll be<br />

thousands and thaaaaousans of corpses floatin’ all over the ocean. Ain’t<br />

it wunnnnnerful!

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