MJJG: Listomania - 104-?

[Raphael Saltwood]

pg 104 - "Theodore Dreiser stealing one of Paul Lawrence Dunbar's plots."
couldn't find which one, sorry - anyone know?

pg 108 - "Nevertheless, necromancy persisted, and on occasion...it no longer lurked in dark corners and obscene hiding-holes but flaunted its foul abomination unabashed in the courts of the Palace and at noon before the eyes of the superstitious capital." - Montague Summers, _The History of Witchcraft and Demonology_
-- another poser: how this quote is apposite to the action here - 
     (Thor Wintergreen left by Berbelang in Sam's Eats on Houston Street informs the prejudiced counterman that his (Thor's) father owns the restaurant chain, elicits deferential behavior)

pg 109-110: "Do not wriggle the shoulders.
Do not shake the hips.
Do not twist the body.
Do not flounce the elbows.
Do not pump the arms. 
Do not hop - glide instead.
Drop the Turkey Trot, the Grizzly Bear, the Bunny Hug, etc.
These dances are ugly, ungraceful, and out of fashion."
- from _Modern Dancing_ by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle

pg 110: "What have you done to my child? You have sent him out on the street in rags of ragtime to collect money from all and sundry. 
"You have made him a laughing stock of intelligence, surely a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere."
- Lee DeForest having a "Broadcast News" moment 
- footnoted to _This Fabulous Century: 1920-1930_ vol. 3, Time-Life Books

pg 113: periodical "Fire" - stellar masthead & contributors, lasted one issue & then its HQ burned down. 
He's not making this up.


--- further thoughts on previous entries ---------------

-- Mencken's takedown of Harding applies to many other stump speakers, even unto the current day, doesn't it?

revisiting link to the Concourse of the Birds, that I posted without actually reading - the piece in the Met's collection is said to be from a later time period (circa 1600) - the poem itself dating from the 12th century & having inspired a slew of other art down the years...and "other miniatures" in the folio dating from the 14th century 

Expanding the accession data gives more info that very quickly outstrips my current level of interest (that could change, not but tonight...) - something something many many years, & it looks like the Met got it in 1963? So the piece in MJ is different?

 * Thor Wintergreen and Berbelang and the other Mu'tafikah are big art history aficionados; 

 * they call the Met the "Center of Art Detention."

 * dissension among the ranks, Yellow Jack and Fuentes have nowhere near the rapport with Thor Wintergreen that Berbelang has: they snipe at him constantly, and even begin to insult Berbelang. 

 * the sheer amount of art they plan to liberate is overwhelming

 * finally: the Conference of the Birds is one of a number of conferences in the book: the confab at the Chitterling Switch / the conference of the Mu'tafikah while discussing the caper / the lecture PaPa LaBas gives at the end to presumably attentive scholars / Berbelang and Wintergreen at Sam's Eats / inter alia