Torgo χ (torgo_x) wrote,

Нетский?!

Dear Log,

I been book readin.

«On the strength of the fact that I had published a book on Nietzsche in 1906, six years after his death, [then, years later, during WWI:] I was called upon by agents of the Department of Justice, elaborately outfitted with badges, to meet the charge that I was an intimate associate and agent of "the German monster, Nietzsky." I quote the official procès verbal, an indignant but often misspelled document. Alas, poor Nietzsche! After all his laborious efforts to prove that he was not a German, but a Pole— even after his heroic readiness, via anti-anti-Semitism, to meet the deduction that, if a Pole, then probably also a Jew!»
—H.L. Mencken, ca. 1918, from his Foreword to his translation of Nietzsche's Antichrist.
IT'S SPELLED "J00" AMIRITE
Tags: goverment, literature, usa
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