# Published by Fleas on the Dog, March 2021
Up and Down the TuBe (Re: Howard Zinn & Michael Gove)
By Pavle RaDonic
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Up & Down the Tube (Re: Howard Zinn & Michael Gove)
Howard Zinn
Isn't he wonderful. Heard him before. Loved the mentions of Mark Twain & Helen Keller.
Who in the heck knew that stuff? Carefully tailored fame.
From memory an autodidact, not uni grad.
You notice the size of the nib on Trumpet's signature quill? See the pour of lustrous black
from the Fordham grad who cheated his way into Penn.
Remember Prof Blainey only a decade & half back during Howard's time, Bush's sheriff,
banging on relentlessly about the advance of civilisation, impossibility of holding back
against lesser cultures, refusing the black armband version of history. Still not dead the old
bastard, god forgive me. (The voice of Bab at my back.)
My Pentel ENERGel 07 flows like a dream. Brought 20-25 refills with me out here, as well
as half dozen pens; near the end of the supply after such an extended stay. Disdain inferior
product. It took the Japs some good while to refine the technology for their nibs. Not to be
taken for granted. You drop or even knock them, goodbye the cascading outpour from the
heart.
His skin treatment in the shot here, as well as the autocue either side he swivels to read from
like a halting schoolboy. You can imagine years ago how long he practised that tag, curls,
hooks and flourishes to die for. No statesman in history has anything to compare, Theodore
Roosevelt poss coming closest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_L7U0R0oSM
Michael Gove
Knew the name but never laid eyes on the man previously, nor heard that voice and those
rhythms.You feel humanity has been cruelly trapped and overpowered by malign forces of
darkness causing such numbers to be herded into the language of this fellow's marauding
ancestors. Stuck there we are like insect specimens in aspic. Three minutes of the twelve was
as much as could be borne. You begin to think of the possibility of the revenge of the natural
order currently working away on that island through this pandemic, the late interventions by
BoJo all too little. Did you hear his recent freedom-loving guff contrasting Brits / Germans &
others?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV42soUXW_g
NB. Replies to mail from George
# Published by Fleas on the Dog, March 2021. Orig. posted on the Blog, Sept 2020. This here is the Fleas layout.
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