mild memory hole but

Not you

...memory hole is "how to take pictures of books so you can read the text"?

lol no, that was because Kyle returned and needed me to take the takeout and my phone was delayed because I had the flash on

Memory hole is still the same old one -- giant swaths carved out of French history but also huge pieces of communism randomly

-- Les Conquerants reminds me a little of Boys in Brazil

Joke's on you, I've always sucked at photography just ask Kyle.

Also this was never translated into English because Les Conquerants did so poorly and I just

I WANT IT

Not that my French is anywhere near good enough to translate

I could read it in French

with a French google on hand >>; lmao :V

Also Paper Moons

The Kingdom of Farfelu, with Paper Moons

Kyle found it

We are not going to find that physically

Malraux.org - Site littéraire André Malraux How good do I really think my French is

Every time I feel bad for hating goodreads I look at it something on it again I love and just -_-' Nope fucking hate it

Goes in expecting anarchy finds super bourgeois French ennui instead

Also La Voie Royale is tye slightly sexier one having actual sex ulin it so maybe everyone is confused

Though how they can interpret the fantasy of Iran as about sex but not reverse understand that Lolita is about the corruption and despoilmemt of America

Maybe the world needs me even for this

New problem with reading Malraux I miss Kyle more :T and want hugs which is so weird. I never do but I do.

ahhhhh it's so good

I really want to read Man's Hope in English not French

I haven't decided on ^Paper Moons & Farfelu I feel like GIVEN HOW IRAN IS PERTINENT

I said before Russia invaded that the first side to fire bullets would lose. But he hasn't yet. Reading this I think, "okay, so it's a completion of WW2, if Satan wanted to prove that humans are stupidly violent, and he was pulling on both the fascists and communists / dictatorial violence, then the answer is Ghandi-MLK Jr. mass peace????? Culture!"

But at the same time

It's not like I can make art like this.

Baby steps Chuuni CC baby steps

same

/rolls around in circles

I can't decide if I want to leave the book here and read it next time I'm back knowing that might not be until camping is over or take it with me but risk Kyle not reading it when he ABSOLUTELY should and will love it

What why

/sob

I wish the crazy Dems had done something like that in the end days of Biden but.......... :||||||| they very clearly did not

Also wrt crying and finding it difficult to art? Yeah fucking same

Things of note when he's taken prisoner, and they wanted to release him specifically for high profile (expect Trump to do the same with artists/influencers/liberals I mean he already has been trying but now with concentration camps not just "come to my birthday.... OR ELSE")

woops

anyway

Malraux fresh from losing in consecutive orders:
Cambodia
Vietnam PROLOGUE x2
Thailand
China
Ethiopia
Iran with a question mark
Stalin is his fan but also is a dick obvs
SPAIN
Poland
NOW FRANCE

Literally wondering if he would ever stop being on the losing side of everything :V

There's something about all this I'm trying to like

put my finger on

WW2 if it could have been solved nonviolently

with culture, writing, inspiration, creativity, love

Like Aish's thing was trying to prove that humans are too dangerous/violent and could destroy the planet

And the solution is the opposite but also a kind of repairing specifically the damages of all that

I feel like I'm missing something so obvious it must be staring me in the face and it's so hard for me to see it through the noise and panic

I'm not even

noisy or panicking and I still just can't

put my finger on it

I feel like I'm so fucking close to it.

Peace not violence this time because Satan is in charge of teaching us how to do that?
Unity of all but still retaining individualism and spark of unique and accepting of differences
Art, culture, music, food, economics

These things > violence. But what am I missing? It's so close why can't I see it?

If my goal was to unlock humanity's infinite wealth
and certain things obstruct that -> Trumpism and the problems of fascism
But even those things can serve to show footprints for the other way to go

Like swarm theory -- even the gnats that go into oblivion teach the others why to avoid that, all things are useful

Hope over fear.

More than just letting the others burn themselves out because it hurts people and there's a way, but ???

I feel like it has to be something Jesus said about sheep (following Jewish tradition of David/Moses/et. al) but I stiiiiilll don't get. It's not that we're shepherds and Trumpists are sheep for us to rescue and fluffle

oh

Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:31-46 - New Intern...=\

Sometimes I get so MACRO about things I forget the micro - obvious. "just be good, do good, spread good, get others to do the same." Literally that fucking simple and I've been saying it from the getgo hahahah /giant sweatdrop.

It's not about sacrifice, it's just about protecting others and spreading the love and protection and you don't even have to do it to dumdums just their victims. That's it. Just don't be an asshole. \:|/ Genuinely that easy

that's generally what it boils down to, the rest is definitions and causal tracking

you got it

Man TANGENTIALLY related - my brainfm is playing Broken Silence and it just feels like a love & peace song for Aish in response kind of to his fear of silence

(the fear of nothingness sort of -- oblivion)

That second page -- I mostly wanted the middle piece but the rest informs on and from

Noting again: Aish had both fascists and communists riled up to prove his point (that humans were a danger to all creation -- at least the Earth, which Satan thought was the entirety and that stars were more decorative isn't he cute? I love him)

Also why USSR went bye bye in the 80s, his deal was up, his chance to prove things was over and he forgot what he would have to do in exchange for not proving the point sufficiently. (become a human fucking dork)

Do... I actually know how to fix this if we just put the [supposed] supernatural/spirtual etc. in the background as "got it covered"?

"Keep reading, Chuuni"
o7 yessir

Hemingway, Orwell, and Malraux in Spanish Civil War, and WW2 at large is like the essence of their countries too

America: comes in at the end, makes a BIG FUCKING SHOW Of "liberating" cafes and turns their involvement WAY bigger than it was, WHILE STRAIGHT UP CONFESSION PROJECTING that everyone else should do more o_<

France; there first, (rightfully) bitches the whole time about conditions and lack of help and resources, tries and fails at propaganda, and is basically relegated to inside out war prisoners and guerilla and surreally does it from a castle but goth moping (JUST SAYING)

England: calm (too calm????) focused on logistics (thank fuck, someone needs to be and America doesn't know what it's doing or geography just is like "BUT GOD LOVES ME?") and inherently distrustful of those communists over there even if they say they are against the enemy and all hands on deck; Trotsky is not the way either /smh

WELL let's say the allied liberal but no not communist movements within the countries that fought in WW2 yea

O

*I'd expect nothing less from post-Napoleonic France

Not worth photo-ing

- Malraux predicted Berlin being destroyed as badly as Stalingrad; launching desperate counteroffensives, and then just suiciding

"Father Brockel knew Malraux was agnostic yet said his passionate love of men and liberty revealed new depths of faith in those who beieved." Damn that's deep.

Strasbourg was defended by an armored train but on Nov. 28th the train was gone, so he tried to rescue the art

THis was worth photoing mostly for the bottom left paragraph and top right which was too much for replicating

I really wanna read my DeGaulle book next but I don't even know where it is

And then French economics thst even with memory holes I know ysaaay

Other memory holes: Ho Chi Minh in 1942 declaring independent Vietnam (memory hole = I thought it was the fucking 50s) and oooohhh I get it -- the communist purges of bourgeouise is redux in "cancel culture" which is a lot more phobia than reality

That's why neoliberals are always fighting the left

Malraux re: De Gaulle "Prodigious thinker, unshakeable like rock, fascinated by principles and therefore invulnerable in a world without principles."

Damn that's cool

Ditto "Adventure only exists now at the level of governments." Based. And true.

roflmao

Axel Madsen (author of the biography here) "De Gaulle did not yet find communists despicable, only exotic, and perhaps anachronist." lmfao

Relatable

1) love those two quotes/excerpts.
2) damn that's fucking deep and I can see why god wanted me to wait to read this before

you're taking longer to finish this book than you usually do

Yes. I wasn't able to read much the last week. I was pretty depressed about it because it's hard for me to judge how much is it just being here in my parents' town again but

Also "De Gaulle said France would have to learn new words - efficiency, harmony, and liberty - or the country would end up an impotent and disillusioned dictatorship."

I fucking want my de Gaulle book

Also in all the Sarte vs. Camus talk I keep being like "~~Camus so cool. BOOOOOO SARTE. BOOOO"

More Madsen here but paraphrasing Malraux, "Stalin was the enemy of art. He had no use for artists unless they served the state, with the result that the Soviet sculptors and painters were compelled to create vast images of Stalin."

word

Also a Michelangelo quote about this, "If it be to open your eyes oupon tyranny, may you never awaken.

Night by Michelangelo

Which damn, right in the feels

moosechangerpat just that line and read the page

Me: how the fuck are they defining fascism here?
Also Me; Okay so populist, anti-communist, nationalistic in pride/emotion, intolerant of opposing views? Yeahhhhhhhhhhh sure buuuuuuuuuuuut right-wing, authoritarianism? X TO DOUBT

https://travel.usnews.co... kopperhed babe I want to go see the statues some time

damn all that

+ "Culture and art, he felt, were expressions of hte most fundamental of liberties. Culture was the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centures had enabled people to be less enslaved. Durring his convalescence, he decided to rework the three long essays of La Psychologie de l'art, to deepen their tone and to say

that modern art, starting with Manet, contained a tremendous philosophical and moral message, because it represented, for the first time, a deliberate decision not to create a world in harmony with nature but with ideals."

;~;

YES THIS!!!!

"Provided we have art, not culture, in mind, the African mask and Michelangelo are not adversaries but polarities. Today, all art is a continuum, a world existing in its own right."

Deep

Memory hole - De Gaulle offered Ho Chi Minh gradual independence for Vietnam, and in the name of the Catholics there (which makes sense because France) the communist-socialist MRP coalition reneged.

I know why the memory hole, but again, I knew my world history literally by France and Catholicism so it's still /rubs temples/ a thing. It's a thing.

"If the enemy is strong, avoid him. If the enemy is weak, attack him." - another memory hole, I remembered Kyle saying it differently about me & Robbie (yes, Mom's service dog.) because the way we play

When the enemy advances, retreat. When the enemy halts, halt. When he retreats, advance. Or something like that

Excerpt: Military Doctrine of Vietnamese Leader Giap

This sounds like a powerful read

Exactly

dynasty_decapitated: Unironically I would reccommend this book (Malraux by Axel Madsen) to like 5/6ths of my friends/family. My Mom even because art history and religion, most people for the cultural analysis, anyone who right now is trying to figure out how to fight NAZIS without shooting (as that would increase their violence and famines and give them

what they openly want.)

kopperhed: Absolutely. I am unironically super grateful you did that

ALSO WHAT THE FUCK -- How was France EARNING MONEY from the Indochina/Vietnam/Korean war?!!?! ((Answer: US paid 40% of the costs as part of the cold war and France was using Germans, Algerians, Tunisians, and Moroccans))

Fun fact: remnants of the Imperial Japanese Army were used too in that area for a few years after the war

Genuinely underrated genius

Ohhh damn. What side?

Were the Japanese used on

kopperhed also babe I picked up a hardcover nice copy of Tales from Watership Down, and some shitty but translated copies of L'espoir and Conquerants (by Malraux) you want me to bring them and Malraux to VT tomorrow?

lmfao

nvm L'Espoir is in French

TBF I read Don Quixote in Spanish

and Little Prince in French

This is going to be a lot harder though

Since he doesn't hold back and it's not for children

The French, if i recall correctly. Rebellion sprung up pretty much instantly in colonies across the globe post wwii (spurring on the 'strife never ends' argument) and southeast asia was no exception. I believe ex-IJA troops (freshly surrendered mind you) were rearmed briefly to help quell burgeoning insurrection in indochina

/nod

damn

Oh neat, yeah i want to see them

You would have loved the "modern Europe" class i took in college. The professor was this huge Francophile and knew all the obscure post war French stuff

De Gaulle: France needs to be redone. The questions is whether the French people want to build France, or go back to sleep. I cannot do it without them. And we must insure the continuity of our institutions until I call on the people to choose new ones. [...] Our task is to rebuild the state, to stabilize currency, and to finish with colonialism.

/TAKES OFF SHIRT
MY BODY IS READY FOR THE DE GAULLE BOOK -- .............. I have no idea where it is. MY BOOKSHELF WOULD BE THE OBJECTIVELY CORRECT PLACE but

My bookshelf isn't really mine so

We watched this Algerian War film i forgot what it was called. Ugly stuff

oooooooooooo

Yeah I'll bet

Du Gaulle seems to be like General Montgomery around here. Americans tend to write them off as assholes, as they take people like Patton and Rommel as admirable figures

It's sad. We already had people like Du Gaulle and Lincoln, had an age literally called "The Age Of Reason," and we're still fucked up

weird

And then he was deeply embarrassed by the truth of "yah lots of torture" there's a lesson for me in it

Mostly the nationalism -- I do love me some nationalism patriotism buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut must never forget my Lilith roots: fuck tribalism in all forms.

Always take the plank out of one's own eyes before trying to help others remove specks

/bawls like a baby

I hope I can make that true Malraxu

Malraux to De Gualle "France is a funny country -- with misfortunes following victories, [... a small list of examples] France was a profoundly irrational country with only discovers her destiny when that destiny is also valid for others."

/fingers to eyes to God
I see what we're doing here.

ALSO LMFAO

"What irritated Malraux, he told de Gaulle, was taht Kennedy instinctively wanted to settle European and Asian issues with American solutions."

Yeah bro

Actually

Another pic hang on

huh. Genuinely I thought wrt Mona Lisa that he understood it would increase France's cultural & therefore economic understanding globally by 100%. That's why the Mona Lisa is the most famous piece now even though the Louvre is like "Nah it sucks. why are you all obsessed with it?"

It doesn't suck, just there's other art too

I agree that there is WAY more to the Louvre

Also damn yo.

I also will put my booby bookmark in Malraux since I trust it to be safer with you

Felled Oaks is another one I need or else I just need to work a lot harder on my French

You're going to leave your booby bookmark at Parkwood? Felled oaks?

Yeah it's his book of conversations he had with de Gualle

yeah I don't trust it here. I mean I can't find half of what I want to now so I hope you can understand why

Apparently antiMemoirs (Malraux's sort of autobiography) is "virtually untranslatable." lmfao

Sad

Psssssh but it was

And wildly popular if not as much as the publishers expected

so it shouldn't be too hard to find

It's apparently his MOST translated book so there

1968 May Paris student revolution etc.

That's where De Gaulle resigned, right?

"What really frightened the government was that the events were not controlled by big labor or the Communist Party, but was a spontaneous grass roots movement."

in America they just lie and say it's a dice roll of various boogiemen

yeah

After insulting all the French children

QUOTE "Had he lost touch?"

See also: Simpsons

lol

Really only needed the bottom halves of these two pages

Also ??? China soil is relatively infertile???

China - Soil Types, Climate, Erosion | Britannica

/makes some deep mental notes

Finishe

d

Nice

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*claps

Look at my babe, so smart. So enlightened

So edumacated