Pim Fortuyn Remembered

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Sun May 6, 2007 at 9:56 am PDT • Views: 220

Five years after the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, Pieter Dorsman looks at his legacy: Dutch Martyrs.

Pim Fortuyn, murdered five years ago today, took on conventions to bring about change. Long before radical Islam was on the radar, Fortuyn had defined it, written a book about it and pointed to the need to confront it.

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 Frank says:

I was writing all kinds of positive and negative canons and weird inverted this and retrograde that and getting as spaced-out mathematically as I could and I was going "Wait a minute (laughs), who cares about that stuff?" I had always liked rhythm and blues so here I was stuck between the slide rule and the gut bucket somewhere and I decided that I would opt for a third road someplace in between. -- From an 1972 interview to Martin Perlich. On giving up writing serial music.