Re: Hello Everyone!!

craig king (ck31@ukc.ac.uk)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:08:27 +0100 

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From: Face Inthecrowd <facethecrowd@hotmail.com>
To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: Hello Everyone!!


> Heya Craig, the owner of a Hitler painting would no doubt be a rich man
but
> it would hurt to look at them.  To even wonder about the good side of
Hitler
> is hard.  I am programmed to see charcoal black and deep purple in the
heart
> of that man.  I could take a glance at an oil based still-life of apples
and
> canteloupes, but never of any bodies or faces.  Seymour Glass and Adolf
> Hitler are incomparable.  I find it irreverent in a way.  One started a
war
> and the other didn't fight.  One is a brutal reality and the other
fictional
> beauty.  If Hitler painted landscapes I would picture every tree burning.
> It would have to be so trite that it's murderously laughable after a good
> ol' pant-pissing.  Finding love for that man is ridiculous.  What a waste.
> People should be more productive and efficient with their time.  Of
course,
> if you had a Hitler painting, you could quit your day job and do more with
> your time once it's sold.  It's a superstition for me.  I wasn't there.
The
> guy represents evil.  I'd rather not believe in evil.  Reading Das Kempf
> would change that somehow, I think.  Is it a long read?  Is it psychotic?
> What's it about?  Seems crazy.  Would a guy that's squeamish to psychotics
> be able to read it?  All rght, if it's under two hundred regular pages and
> he seems sane, I might read it.  That's not a deal, that's just a reminder
> for me.  Who knows how long and psychotic Das Kempf is?
>
> Inebriously curious,
>
> Japhe
>

japhe,

when i said that i'd buy his paintings it came from a conversation i'd had
where we had a sneaking suspicion that if he'd suceeded as a painter (ie: if
someone had bought them all), he wouldn't have developed such a sociopathic
personality. this is of course partly utter nonsense. i mean i don't want to
OWN them. christ no. just buy 'em. maybe it would have had some effect. we
were being silly. and i was in the letter. partly ;-)

and mein kampf is one of the most tedious books i have ever tried to read
and ended up putting down. if he painted the way he wrote i'm not surprised
he didn't sell any of them.

cheers,

craig