Dropping the "H" Bomb… and I don't mean "Harvard"

"Hitler was dead in 1946, but dance—the devil's reach of hellfire and something worse than Hitler, according to the author of this pamphlet—wasn't.

     [Dan Gilbert] does actually make the case that dance music (jitterbug, swing, and jazz) was more dangerous than Hitler and was 'Hitlerizing' American youth to its utter destruction. 'Jitterbug dens' preached a 'faster jitterbuggery' (which was 'conceived in the brothel to stimulate lust and vice') which led youth into the Underworld. The children of America were being lost to 'razzy jazzy spasm bands' which would 'strouse uncontrollable sex desire' and 'infect youth with the disease of immorality' then to 'produce(s) a state of emotional and nervous derangement, which is scientifically indistinguishable from intoxication induced by stimulants or narcotics.' And on and on."
— Ptak Science Books
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"An upstate Republican who’s eying a run for governor has compared Shelly Silver, the Orthodox Jewish speaker of the state Assembly, with Adolf Hitler and the anti-Christ.
     And now Erie County Executive Chris Collins says he’s really, really sorry.
     The slur came during a speech Saturday night to fellow Republicans in Buffalo, while slamming Albany’s notorious 'three men in a room' budget process – in which the governor and legislative leaders make deals in private.
     Collins referenced famed French seer Nostradamus’ prediction that there would be three anti-Christs before the Apocalypse.
     He said it’s generally accepted the first was Napoleon and the second Hitler. He said he was 'pretty sure' the third is Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, two attendees at the Erie County GOP’s annual fall fund-raiser at the Adam’s Mark Hotel said."
— Elizabeth Benjamin, New York Daily News via The Yeshiva World News
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EX LIBRIS AD MYSTERIA: Weird Books and Beyond

From: Codex Seraphinianus

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
by Henry Darger

"Henry Darger was a typical urban hermit: he worked as a janitor, he lived in a small apartment in Chicago for close to 40 years, never married, and kept to himself. After he died, however, in 1973, his former landlords discovered that Darger was a typical hermit with an atypical habit: he had been writing and illustrating a novel for years, and the tome was more than 15,000 pages long by the time he died. [...]


The Red Book
by Carl Jung

"[...] by using a technique of Jung’s own development that he called 'active imagination,' [...] he was visited by a male and female figure, whom he later identified as the prophet Elijah and Salome, who guided him through the process of delving into a collective unconscious.
Jung’s heirs kept the Red Book from being accessed for nearly eighty years, until 2001. It was finally published in 2009." — Business Pundit
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