Harry´s Blog

From Violence Under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling.
In 1977 Valie Export was brought to trial for having engaged in cruelty to animals and found guilty of having tied a canary to a perch. However the scalding of the birds with boiling wax, which had been filmed, came under the statute of limitations. […]

Andy by Andy  
There he is: Andy on canvas
with the hair of his white wig standing on end,
as if he had stepped on a live wire.
It’s worth millions.
You can’t prove that it’s great.
And you can’t prove that it’s not.
You can’t prove that it’s worth the tab
and you can’t prove that it’s not.
It’s all a matter […]

Herbert Kuhner
“Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground, met with President Franklyn D. Roosevelt and Supreme Justice Felix Frankfurter, informing them of the Holocaust.On. July 28, 1943.
“With Roosevelt he raised the matter of providing hard currency to buy Jews out of the ghetto.
“The President rebuffed him: “No one will like to know that we […]

Theodor Herzl
had gone the gamut.
First he thought
that assimilation
would solve the problem,
but he realized
that the dark clouds
looming on the horizon
would not be blown away
by neglect of religious practice
or mass conversions.
Besides, although there were many
who favored assimilation,
others wanted to continue
to lead a life within religious tradition.
So that idea had to be cast aside.
The vision of the dark […]