Yikes, you have a point! Speaking of horror, I posted the link to my piece
on a Hefner fan page at Facebook. Keep meaning to check back and see if
anything happened.
Rachel
> Rachel Loden wrote:
> > Ken, yes,
> >
> > I spent my childhood in that rubble -- or in that slow-motion mine
collapse.
> > (I talk about it in a couple of interviews, including the one at
Jacket.)
> >
> > We all grew up there, I guess, in one way or another, given the long
fingers
> > of international stupidity.
> >
> > This morning especially I keep remembering that "nobody ever went broke
> > underestimating the intelligence of the American people" (inexact quote,
> > attributed to Mencken).
> >
> > Sorry about the mercilessness! Can't take prisoners in this poetry
business,
> > you know.
> >
>
> Merciless is welcome. I recall that painting in the National Gallery in
> DC, in fact: Francis Bacon's Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope
> Innocent X. It's horrifying. Put a smoking jacket on the ol' Pope and
> there's The Hefster.
>
> ken
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