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My fav is the pic of the defendants and your grandfather. But if course a Nazi wouldn't include that as a choice.

I would hang the slave market picture in my house, as a reminder of what we never can allow again. To not hang it is to erase history. It also is a great conversation starter and a prompt to delve more into learning about a dark time.

Many years ago I purchased a G. Harvey print titled "Decisions at Dawn." It is a painting of the Confederate Army planning their strategy in the predawn hours with the blurry image of the Confed flag in the background. When I walked into a Charleston art store and saw it, it took my breath away. The artist had so clearly captured the defeat of the army in the painting. It is a reminder of what was, the reality of war, and again, what can never be allowed to happen again.

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Decisions at Dawn is chilling. Almost literally.

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How...um...eclectic. It would appear "The Old Curiosity Shop" has nothing on Schloss Manteuffel-Weingarten. Why do I have this image of you roaming the neighborhood with a pushcart crying, "Bring out your crap!" As it happens, I likely saw the "Raptor" also known as Rachel, in the play "Enron" in a small theater in DC, what something like five or six years ago? Unless she had an understudy. I recall as well it probably had more performances in DC than it did on Broadway.

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Correct. You probably saw it at Dance Loft on 14th Street. Rachel had several roles: Raptor, prostitute and stock analyst who had to explain how she fucked up.

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Once you see the man pooping in the stained glass, you cannot unsee it. I’m amazed Rachel sat on that opinion for however long she quietly sat on it. If it had been my opinion, I would have told you the second I saw it. Doesn’t at all diminish the charm of the stained glass. I quite like it more now.

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I see a parrot hawking a loogie.

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I would be honored to display the Barnaby picture.

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Why was the penis and boobs table not an option in the poll!? Just because it doesn’t actually live in Gene’s house doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have been an option.

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I am particularly enamored of the quote with the bottles, "Who is the Czar and why does he hate me?" Didn't we all ask that question? That is lives with the Czar, I love that. I once asked Style writer Roxanne Roberts, after the Czar had retired/been defenestrated by the Empress, if she could confirm the Czar's identity. She declined to do so. Deep Throat part deux.

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Others have asked. There is a fabulous story behind it. I will explain in the next GP.

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Excellent!

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I would love to read Rachel's story about her bosom, but alas, I refuse to resubscribe to WaPo to do so.

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Ha. Was going to do the same thing! https://wapo.st/4gocjjG

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It was the least I could do.

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You still have to create an account and be bombarded with "better" and "better" offers to get a worse and worse newspaper.

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Gene, I've heard that Catherine the Great had a romantic encounter with Hermann Goering on top of your table.

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I would display the slave market photo, and below it a stylized piece saying “Never again,” perhaps superimposed over a Holocaust picture. Slavery and the Holocaust are two sides of the same coin.

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No Ramirez cartoon? What the actual eff?

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The perfect place would be under the man pooping.

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I'm maybe too analytical here, but if a Nazi were compelling me and gave me that list, I would have to pick the one I thought would be the last one the Nazi would pick. And I certainly wouldn't pick my fave, because seeing it day in and out would just remind me of said compulsion, and I'd grow to resent a piece I had liked. Or if the slave market pic were a choice, that would be best in context.

The news photo reminded me of a pic from the Washington Star of my mom dressed in an antebellum gown. She was an assistant bookkeeper at a D.C. furniture store when GWTW came out, and she was designated as the Scarlet for the antebellum living room display the store had put together. My mom wasn't crazy about the whole idea, but she said she was the only young, dark-haired white woman working there, so there it was. I might still have the pic downstairs.

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I get what you say about the slave-market photo, but I would not be able to look my family in the face and say that it is a powerful statement *against* slavery by keeping it on display. We need these historical records, but not in our private homes unless one is active in preserving the history.

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I mean -- I am a physicist. I am fairly well-versed in the history, but I am not a historian who studies the subject, works with primary sources, etc.

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I'd like to hear more about this sandwich contest, if there's more to hear.

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Did it come with fries?

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I wonder if we can link to old Tropic stories?? I'll go look.

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One must pay for the privilege of viewing Miami Herald Archives. I only have one old issue, August 27, 1995.

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