As we head down the slippery slope to fascism in the US, remember this:

Aldous Huxley, the novelist and word-man among the great Huxley family, saw it coming.

Why is it that authors with bad eyesight (viz. Homer, Joyce) always seem to see the most clearly?

Huxley saw and detailed the rise of pre-WWII British Fascism in his great novel Point, Counterpoint. He would have spotted Robert Spencer for what he is in less than a heartbeat.

And when his “hero” Maurice Spandrell dies at the hands of the “Brotherhood of British Freemen” (otherwise known as Orcs, in Tolkien’s lexicon, now reincarnated in real life as the “English Defense League”, whose puds Pamz sucks for love, not money), this is playing in the background.

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Beethoven, string quartet no. #15, “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart” (Holy Song of Thanks to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode).

Beethoven scratched out the name of Napoleon, to whom he originally dedicated his Third Symphony, with such vehemence that there’s a hole in the MS.

Let us do likewise to the New Fascists.