4 July
1940 death of Marie Countess Larisch
Kind of Collage 33 of 2 = odd
Kind of Collage 34 of 2 = odd
Kind of Collage 35 of 2 = odd
1984.07.04
"Like Bush and the weapons."
2004.07.04 11:42
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"Like Bush and the weapons."
2004.07.04 11:42
Yesterday, I took three Artifacts of Ottopia to my mother for her perusal--No. 18, No. 19, No. 20--respectively. The first because we as a family indeed vacationed in Europe in Summer 1963. The second because it contains a 1913 aerial view of Munich's Zoological Gardens--Harlaching, the community on the plateau overlooking the Zoo, and where my mother lived and worked in the early 1940s, is also in the aerial view. And the third because of the following paragraph contained therein:
"During the 193rd plenary meeting of the delegates of the Bavarian Parliament on June 26, 1886, Baron von Ow stated, apart from the usual attacks on the King's mental condition, that Ludwig II had ordered a Bastille--a state prison--to be constructed in Neuschwanstein, and that it had been built. According to statements of the servants who had also been witnesses to the medical commission, high-ranking personalities, including the Crown Prince of Prussia, were to be taken into custody there by orders of the King. Even today, it can be proven that these claims were lies, for during the entire project of Neuschwanstein, the construction of a prison was neither planned, nor was such a plan ever realized."
"So, the Baron was against the King?"
"Yes, but so were most of the government officials, even Ludwig's uncle, who then became Regent. There was no prison ever built at Neuschwanstein."
"Like Bush and the weapons [of mass destruction]."
[laugh]
"Mom, you understand completely."
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