TRP Misc. Remember the slaugtherhouse motif in AtD? Might go back to Tolstoy...

[John Bailey]

"Cities begin upon the day the Walls of the Shambles go up, to screen
away Blood and Blood-letting, Animals' Cries, Smells and Soil, from
Residents already grown fragile before Country Realities. The
Better-Off live far as they may, from the concentration of Slaughter.
Soon, Country Melancholicks are flocking to Town like Crows, dark'ning
the Sun. Dress'd Meats appear in the Market, Sausages hang against the
Sky, forming Lines of Text, cryptick Intestinal Commentary." M&D

Have finally read Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (not bad) after seeing
the new final adaptation of his Disgrace (excellent - one of John
Malkovich's finest performances). Disgrace is (partly) a brilliant
meditation on our relationship with animals. Coetzee and Pynchon are
friends, right? Did I make that up? Not that they necessarily share
common opinions.

Also, I've always thought that calling Hitler a vegetarian is as
accurate as calling him an artist.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:54 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> "At mealtimes he often boasted - in graphic detail - of a slaughterhouse he had visited in Ukraine. It amused him to spoil carnivorous guests' appetites."[11]
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> "Do you know that your Führer is a vegetarian, and that he does not eat meat because of his general attitude toward life and his love for the world of animals? Do you know that your Führer is an exemplary friend of animals, and even as a chancellor, he is not separated from the animals he has kept for years?...The Führer is an ardent opponent of any torture of animals, in particular vivisection, and has declared to terminate those conditions...thus fulfilling his role as the savior of animals, from continuous and nameless torments and pain.”
> —Neugeist/Die Weisse Fahne (German magazine of the New Thought movement)[8]
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> Laura
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> >From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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> > “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.” – Leo Tolstoy, author (1828-1910).
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