GRGR(26) - The Fatty

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Tue May 16 08:04:02 CDT 2000


Howdy

Not much of a *thesis* really, was it?  More in the line of a *line*.

But how about: a charming, "innocently" murderous selfishness, and a
conviction that *he* was right and traditional superincumbent authority
(the Church) was wrong.  Both of these points are assailable: most
supremely powerful executive politicians, under just about any
political sytem, are probably charming killers; and too many in the
U.S., as elsewhere in a world everywhere in reaction to the crisis of
modernism, seek to reestablish the authority of a superincumbent
religious tradition...  American perhaps in his vulgarity, his avarice,
his exhibitionism...  Donald Trump in an embroidered bullet proof vest,
tights and pointy shoes?

Mark


--- "Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe at barrera.org> wrote:
> > From: Mark Wright AIA
> >
> > Henry VIII
> > (the most American of all the British monarchs).
> 
> That's an interesting thesis...
> What else (besides his girth) makes
> him so, in your eyes?
> 
> - Joe


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