Every time Trump talks about the Military, it Reminds me of Jerzy Kosinski.
I read a book about or by JK in which he talked about getting a well-tailored military uniforms made for himself. He enjoyed walking around NYC observing the reactions of strangers to his military look.
Hitler was very good at co-opting mythic symbols and DJT keeps "Mein Kampf" on his beside table -- given to him by Steve Bannon or so the story goes.
On the Mythuse of Mythic Symbols – Immanence
immanencejournal.com/on-the-mythuse-of-mythic-symbols/
Aug 12, 2017 - You are here: Home / myth / On the Mythuse of Mythic Symbols ... The rune was a favorite of Hitler's SS, but it predates the Nazi Party by ...
Reflections on the Psychology of Adolf Hitler - Jstor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27510921
by DR Ferrell - 1995 - Cited by 5 - Related articlescompelled to fight evil with evil, to use the devil's ways against him, and at the same time ... lion Jews had not only to die but to be killed in such a way that they symbol ... Hitler's psychotic hatred of Jews is rooted in the mythic image of the Jews.
Jerzy Kosinski’s Traumas, Real and Invented
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/jerzy-kosinskis-traumas-real-and-invented
Kosinski’s story, as well as it can be separated from the myths he wove around it. A comprehensive 1996 biography by James Park Sloan concludes that the Village Voice got it right, regarding both Kosinski’s wartime experiences and the editorial assistance he sought and received on his novels.
But the figure at its center remains as enigmatic as his expression in the Leibovitz portrait. Kosinski’s motto, Sloan writes, was - larvatus prodeo: “I go forth in disguise.”
Was he indeed a painted bird—cast out, forced to conceal his identity, abused, his encounters with others resulting only in brutality?
Or was he also a bird painter, blending fact and fiction in his own life and the lives of others in a way that was deliberately deceitful, even sadistic?
Abandoned by his parents at the age of six, he claimed, he had roamed the countryside alone, witnessing rape, murder, and incest, constantly fearing for his life. Kosinski turned those stories into his first novel, “The Painted Bird” (1965), which, for a time, was considered a major work of Holocaust literature.
The book takes its name from an emblematic act of cruelty: a peasant, unusually skilled at trapping birds, paints his captives before releasing them, then watches as the rest of the flock, failing to recognize their former comrades, brutally attack them.
Jerzy Kosinski was, both by intention and compulsion, a truth-telling fraud... ; an author of such celebrated works as "The Painted Bird," "Steps" and "Being There" who did not entirely write them; a friend of the rich and pedigreed who spent his nights in sex clubs and dark warrens; a practical joker who liked to put on a military uniform and fake mustache; a desperately secret man who became the confidante of journalists, Kosinski blurred the line repeatedly between art and entertainment, between private life and public career.
Kosinski’s motto, Sloan writes, was
Hitler was very good at co-opting mythic symbols and DJT keeps "Mein Kampf" on his beside table -- given to him by Steve Bannon or so the story goes.
On the Mythuse of Mythic Symbols – Immanence
immanencejournal.com/on-the-mythuse-of-mythic-symbols/
Aug 12, 2017 - You are here: Home / myth / On the Mythuse of Mythic Symbols ... The rune was a favorite of Hitler's SS, but it predates the Nazi Party by ...
Reflections on the Psychology of Adolf Hitler - Jstor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27510921
by DR Ferrell - 1995 - Cited by 5 - Related articlescompelled to fight evil with evil, to use the devil's ways against him, and at the same time ... lion Jews had not only to die but to be killed in such a way that they symbol ... Hitler's psychotic hatred of Jews is rooted in the mythic image of the Jews.
Jerzy Kosinski’s Traumas, Real and Invented
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/jerzy-kosinskis-traumas-real-and-invented
Kosinski’s story, as well as it can be separated from the myths he wove around it. A comprehensive 1996 biography by James Park Sloan concludes that the Village Voice got it right, regarding both Kosinski’s wartime experiences and the editorial assistance he sought and received on his novels.
But the figure at its center remains as enigmatic as his expression in the Leibovitz portrait. Kosinski’s motto, Sloan writes, was - larvatus prodeo: “I go forth in disguise.”
Was he indeed a painted bird—cast out, forced to conceal his identity, abused, his encounters with others resulting only in brutality?
Or was he also a bird painter, blending fact and fiction in his own life and the lives of others in a way that was deliberately deceitful, even sadistic?
Abandoned by his parents at the age of six, he claimed, he had roamed the countryside alone, witnessing rape, murder, and incest, constantly fearing for his life. Kosinski turned those stories into his first novel, “The Painted Bird” (1965), which, for a time, was considered a major work of Holocaust literature.
The book takes its name from an emblematic act of cruelty: a peasant, unusually skilled at trapping birds, paints his captives before releasing them, then watches as the rest of the flock, failing to recognize their former comrades, brutally attack them.
Jerzy Kosinski was, both by intention and compulsion, a truth-telling fraud... ; an author of such celebrated works as "The Painted Bird," "Steps" and "Being There" who did not entirely write them; a friend of the rich and pedigreed who spent his nights in sex clubs and dark warrens; a practical joker who liked to put on a military uniform and fake mustache; a desperately secret man who became the confidante of journalists, Kosinski blurred the line repeatedly between art and entertainment, between private life and public career.
Kosinski’s motto, Sloan writes, was
larvatus prodeo: “I go forth in disguise.”
Was he indeed a painted bird—cast out, forced to conceal his identity, abused, his encounters with others resulting only in brutality?
Or was he also a bird painter, blending fact and fiction in his own life and the lives of others in a way that was deliberately deceitful, even sadistic?
Cockpit
Cockpit
By Jerzy Kosinski
The page where Kosinski describes to tailor the military look he wants:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=YpphBD3fDY8C&pg=PT164&lpg=PT164&dq=why+did+jerzy+kosinski+wear+military+uniforms&source=bl&ots=zZGeBl7E6t&sig=ACfU3U35y5v5LbzmUnBaG_-Km6sFxJzZOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4vdLs8ZrjAhVTJ80KHaEtAqkQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=why%20did%20jerzy%20kosinski%20wear%20military%20uniforms&f=false
Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography
By James Park Sloan
Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-03-24-9603240040-story.html
The page where Kosinski describes to tailor the military look he wants:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=YpphBD3fDY8C&pg=PT164&lpg=PT164&dq=why+did+jerzy+kosinski+wear+military+uniforms&source=bl&ots=zZGeBl7E6t&sig=ACfU3U35y5v5LbzmUnBaG_-Km6sFxJzZOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4vdLs8ZrjAhVTJ80KHaEtAqkQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=why%20did%20jerzy%20kosinski%20wear%20military%20uniforms&f=false
Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography
By James Park Sloan
Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-03-24-9603240040-story.html
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