…I think about Howard Jacobson, and his reference to Plato (and Dostoevsky sort of), who warned us that the masses are “tyrant-loving”…i.e. stupid. And of Mayakovsky, who rightly asked of himself (vis-à-vis the rest of us schmucks — though he didn’t need to specify): “By what Goliath was I born, so enormous and so useless…” asks me and all of us again:
Чего одаривать по шаблону намалеванному
сиянием трактирную ораву!
Видешь — опять
голгофнику оплеванному
предпочитают Варраву?
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Why bestow such radiance on this drunken mass?
What do they have to offer?
You see — once again
they prefer Barabbas
over the Man of Calvary.
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal 
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