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November 2011

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The New Inquiry: Dispatches from The Adventures of Mao on the Long March → thenewinquiry.com

thenewinquiry:

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Self-Portrait (1972), Salvador Dalí

Conversation with Chairman Mao:

Interpreter: One of the Americans called [Dali’s “Mao-Marilyn”] vulgar. Do you agree?

Mao: No. Dali understood the relation between sexual power, or sexual magnetism, and sexual myth, for the myth of Mao is sexual,…

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