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Guerrillophilia & the sincerely frivolous.(Italian rebel Giangiacomo Feltrinelli)

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| February 01, 2002 | Daniels, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Not long ago in Paris, I went to see a laudatory full-length documentary film about General Massoud, the former commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance. The commercial chances of the film had been much improved by the assassination of Massoud shortly before its release, and those who had seen the film were invited to write their thoughts in a livre blanc in the foyer of the cinema.

It is an undoubted, though lamentable, fact that such livres blancs bring out the banal in every human mind. The work of even the most sublime artists never fails to provoke embittered reflections on the inaccessibility of the lavatories in the galleries. And Canadians, I have ...

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