Posted 4:56 PM by Gene

Grass’s Publisher Releases His Memoir Early

Joining the Waffen SS PAYS!

P. S.

Grass Nobel Prize Will Not Be Revoked

Hmmm...could that be because of -- NAH.

P. P. S. Typetypetypetypetyping from THE TWXSTERS:

If Grass had not been living with this wretched little skeleton in his closet, he might never have written a word. Like 99% of his compatriots, he might have just dusted himself off at war's end, said his 20 Hail Marys, and gone about joining the blithely ahistorical postwar boom. Instead, a haunted Grass cranked out a series of brutal novels about the war and childhood in occupied Poland, beginning with his powerful 1959 novel The Tin Drum. Those unforgettable narratives, along with a good measure of his public hectoring and politicking, helped his entire country stave off collective amnesia for decades. So while his opponents, and even a share of his friends, are piling on him about the lies he told about his past, it's worth considering that those personal lies helped keep alive important national truths.

If we're going to take that attitude we may as well say Mein Kampf was a lie that told the truth. Hasn't this clod heard of "Fake but Accurate"?