[lit-ideas] Re: Guess - Answer
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- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:03:40 +0200
On 3-Aug-09, at 3:02 PM, Phil Enns wrote:
Chris Bruce wrote:
"For those of you who may sneer at such a 'caveat' [warning the link
is to a Marxist website] , I have an amusing yet not untroubling
anecdote."
As an undergraduate, I took a course on sources of 20th century
thought that focused on Marx, Darwin and Freud. The professor
proudly recounted how in the 70's he was denied a U.S. work visa to
take up a
teaching post at a U.S. university because he taught a course on
Marx. It was a great story but I didn't take it at face value. He
was one of those professors whose stories were more interesting if
they were told after lunch.
The anecdote i was going to relate concerned the activities of the
police under the enactment of the War Measures Act in Canada (late
1970) and had to do with rounding up suspects and their suspicious
literature - to wit, a book with the title 'Cubism'.
Alas, this ludicrousity has been long surpassed by the anecdote which
Eric recently related about the destruction of Kristian Zimerman's
piano by American security personnel because it 'smelled funny'. I
temporarily forgot about that (it seems that some aspect of my being
does not wish to allow such incidents to be held in my consciousness).
Chris Bruce,
hanging on to the unravelling threads of his belief in Vernunft
& Aufklaerung [Reason & Enlightenment] by the skin of his teeth, in
Kiel, Germany
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