I. INTRODUCTION
A. Art of the Day
The famed painting of the painter who painted me before his time (or so the joke goes about his portrait of a patron saint of the arts that looks like a biographical portrait) depicting the horrors of politicized violence he witnessed first hand in the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
B. Wisdom of the Day
“I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories, and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.” George Orwell, Spanish Civil War.
C. Cultural Recommendation
Two brilliant books by Orwell, one capturing the insanity of the Spanish Civil War and its welcoming of politicized violence, as well as the nature of life for the impoverished in early industrial London & Paris. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802296-homage-to-catalonia-down-and-out-in-paris-and-london?
