May Madness
01/05/2025 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIt's been a strange day in Dursleyville.
A gorgeous sunny day but way too warm for this time of year.
On my agenda was a very boring Muggle day.
No witchy adventures sweeping the snow from the mountains in the Brocken or even waving the red flag for May Day
Just a normal day sorting out boring goblin business, going to my day job and spending the evening doing a bit of a Putz Blitz while listening to a fascinating.radio program about the life and times of one Leni Riefenstahl.
Which reminds me,I do have a copy of "Triumph.of the Will" but have never actually watched it.
Now that there's definitely more of my life behind me than ahead of me,I better get cracking with that bucket list.
But a woman who swooned over the magnificence of "Mein Kampf" was either deluded or bull shitting.
I've tried to read it a few times. It used to be in the secondary school library along with Das Kapital but both times were just so totally tedious
These days, Mein Kampf is more terrifying because my most recent attempt was in April 2021 when U snaffled a 1938 English language edition with a foreword filled with gushing praise.
What struck me was just how much it reminded me of Trump 45 with his talk of FAKE news, the lying press, a movement like the world has never seen before and most disturbing of all -.the DEEP State. What Hitler called the Imperial Austrian Secret State
Plus ça change....
Another book I picked up today which I did not expect to see is written by the daughter of Giselle Pellicot (using her spare ribs name) so I didn't recognise what it was at first.
So many books, so few lives.
A gorgeous sunny day but way too warm for this time of year.
On my agenda was a very boring Muggle day.
No witchy adventures sweeping the snow from the mountains in the Brocken or even waving the red flag for May Day
Just a normal day sorting out boring goblin business, going to my day job and spending the evening doing a bit of a Putz Blitz while listening to a fascinating.radio program about the life and times of one Leni Riefenstahl.
Which reminds me,I do have a copy of "Triumph.of the Will" but have never actually watched it.
Now that there's definitely more of my life behind me than ahead of me,I better get cracking with that bucket list.
But a woman who swooned over the magnificence of "Mein Kampf" was either deluded or bull shitting.
I've tried to read it a few times. It used to be in the secondary school library along with Das Kapital but both times were just so totally tedious
These days, Mein Kampf is more terrifying because my most recent attempt was in April 2021 when U snaffled a 1938 English language edition with a foreword filled with gushing praise.
What struck me was just how much it reminded me of Trump 45 with his talk of FAKE news, the lying press, a movement like the world has never seen before and most disturbing of all -.the DEEP State. What Hitler called the Imperial Austrian Secret State
Plus ça change....
Another book I picked up today which I did not expect to see is written by the daughter of Giselle Pellicot (using her spare ribs name) so I didn't recognise what it was at first.
So many books, so few lives.
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Date: 2025-05-02 07:09 am (UTC)I saw a few snippets from it in Rammstein's video clip "Stripped". The same vibes as old Soviet propaganda. I had honestly tried to read Mein Kampf, but it was excruciatingly boring. I suppose it'd go better for Leni because she was all into the ideology, and was personally acquainted with the author, who allegedly had a very charming and inspiring personality. (Unlike Trump.)