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“…he wrote a sharply critical letter about [the essay] to Matthew Josephson, not knowing that he had written the piece under a pseudonym. A correspondence of escalating antipathy followed, culminating in a final letter from Josephson typed Dadaistically on Italian toilet paper.”
— Jan 30, 2026 02:36PM
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Didn’t expect to come across a positive note to the Weimar years!
“ When on a trip to Berlin in January 1922 [Cowley] discovered that the hyperinflation of the German mark meant, among other pleasant things for holders of American currency, that five hundred copies of a small magazine could be printed for a mere twenty dollars…”
— Jan 30, 2026 02:57PM
“ When on a trip to Berlin in January 1922 [Cowley] discovered that the hyperinflation of the German mark meant, among other pleasant things for holders of American currency, that five hundred copies of a small magazine could be printed for a mere twenty dollars…”
