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"springtime meal of the word-in-liberty" is fantastic and captures the erotic and intellectual beauty of the opening story. The idea of fostering new connections is noble in the aesthetic sense, certainly. a fair amount of the recounting of the banquets was a lot of self-puffery.

While to be expected for a fascist text, the overtly anti-intellectual elements are rather depressing especially for a "propagandist of pessimism" such as I. Also, kind of lays bare the open hypocrisy of nationalism - to condemn another country for advocating its interests and identity abroad but to do that very same thing yourself.

Opening story was beautiful. The anti-pasta diatribes are amusing but this is surprisingly prescient of discourses around automation and the body as a work of art. I suppose it all comes back to merging the right wing idea of preserving a national character with the often sensual and poetic nature of avant-gardism.

this book is crazy