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Excellent stuff here.
To pick up on Tynan bringing Mein Kampf into the discussion, I’d humbly say that it can teach lots of things, prominent amongst them being how not to write. Adolf could not write, bless him. The translator’s introduction to the volume of it that I have makes this clear several times before you get stuck into the book proper. Despite the effort of freely translating several hundred pages of humiliating wind, the translator seems not to have enjoyed the process one bit, and to begrudge the literary Hitler entirely. Hitler repeats himself page after page. Is he not another of the historical speed-freaks, the ones which Lou Reed claimed in the sleeve-notes to Metal Machine Music were responsible for all wars? Adolf sure wrote like one. I couldn’t even finish Mein Kampf. To write a pile of boring bilge which by rights should explain the beginnings of one of the most fascinating ‘events’ (if that’s the right word) in all of history is quite a feat.