Fwd: BOOK

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From: Charles Grimes <charlesgrimes9@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Subject: book
To: JRH <jhurd@qsoup.net>

Thanks for your support.  I am reaching a point of mental fatigue as I search for the end of this phase of the book.  I know I will need to add more sections to get the book to 150 pages.  I have thought of two sections.  Mythologies is one chapter and Racisim is the other.  Racisim is what allows your mind to damage and murder other peoples so easily.  A Rascist believes he is culturally and mentally superior to those he plunders.  Kinda deep.

 

I think I have stumbled upon what I need.  The Nazi vision goes up in flames so a sense of renewal by fire there.  Picasso finds a sense of renewal in his attraction to Francoise.  She is young and beautiful and he can shape her into his new muse of life after near death at the hands of the Gestapo.  Picasso's trust in his belief of self and working in the face of terror and believing in his mythology outlasts the Nazi government beliefs (there are still Nazi who personally believe) and their work and mythology.  With the liberation of Paris Picasso is the number one celebrity of the Liberation and he did not even fire a shot.  Even DeGaulle had comprimised himself during the Occupation but Picasso's belief in sticking out the Occupation and being himself made him the uncomprimised hero.

 

His women would see this another way but History remembers only the victors.  While Hitler is having himself and Eva murdered in his bunker Picasso is starting a new life of celebrity and fame with a 20 year old babe.

 

Something like that.

 

I have been watching all of these documentaries of the Battle of Stalingrad.  The German soldiers were so hungry and cold that in the last days of the battle they would bury themselves in the rubble to stay warm and at the end of the fighting the Russian soldiers had to dig the Germans out of the ruble because they were too weak to do it themselves.

 

I am just starting to dig into the material about the last days of the German occupation where Hitler tells his commander in chief in Paris that if Hitler cannot have Paris then no one will have it.  Leave Paris in a heap.  Destroy everything.

 

Charles